Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Woke Journalist LIVID After Threads CENSORS Them, Elon Proven Right w-Kingsley Wilson

00:00:00.000 Peace.

00:00:15.000 That's right, for a while now, we knew that Mark Zuckerberg's Threads app, which is supposed to rival Twitter slash X, was censorious.

00:00:23.000 I mean, it's run by Facebook.

00:00:24.000 Facebook is one of the worst.

00:00:25.000 TikTok's a bit worse.

00:00:27.000 But this matters because we're now getting reports that Walmart is joining the advertiser boycott.

00:00:31.000 And well, We were initially thinking of launching the story with a comment from Dick Durbin, Senator out of Illinois Democrat, saying that we should be enlisting illegal immigrants, non-citizens, into the army because of the shortfall.

00:00:44.000 I thought, oh look, we can't have these conversations if the platforms that allow free speech are destroyed.

00:00:50.000 But this is, while bad, I think there is some good in this.

00:00:54.000 Many of these people on the left, these woke reporters, cannot deny now that Mark Zuckerberg is worse for you than Twitter would have been.

00:01:02.000 And if you want to be able to criticize even Elon Musk, you're gonna have to use X, because Zuckerberg ain't gonna let you talk.

00:01:10.000 So we'll talk about all of that.

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00:02:24.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is Kingsley Wilson.

00:02:30.000 That is correct.

00:02:31.000 Thanks for having me, Tim.

00:02:32.000 As you said, I'm Kingsley Wilson.

00:02:34.000 I am a Trump campaign alum and I currently do digital media for the Center for Newing America in D.C.

00:02:40.000 I'm also national committee woman for the D.C.

00:02:42.000 Young Republicans.

00:02:43.000 So thanks for having me.

00:02:44.000 And so Wilson's new.

00:02:46.000 It is new, yes.

00:02:47.000 I recently got married about a month ago, so, you know, I've been joking no longer, Cortez, I guess I'm white now, so I know that privilege you all enjoy.

00:02:54.000 There you go, now people are just going to go ahead and, yeah, you lose your race card.

00:02:58.000 I got her sunscreen as a wedding present.

00:03:02.000 I'm Hannah-Claire Brimwell.

00:03:03.000 I was really grateful to be with the DCYRs at their Christmas party last weekend.

00:03:06.000 It was a fun time.

00:03:08.000 I am, of course, a writer for SCNR.com.

00:03:11.000 It's the best, also known as Scanner News.

00:03:13.000 Tim's laughing at me.

00:03:14.000 What's a YR?

00:03:15.000 A young Republican.

00:03:16.000 Ah, yes.

00:03:17.000 See, some other people use letters, too, not just here at Scanner, scnr.com.

00:03:22.000 I can't have a good intro because I'm now distracted, but Ian's here!

00:03:25.000 My intro's going to be even better.

00:03:26.000 Yeah, it always is.

00:03:27.000 Hi, it's Ian Crossland.

00:03:28.000 Good to be here.

00:03:29.000 Hi, everyone.

00:03:30.000 Good to see you, Kaisley.

00:03:31.000 Good to see you.

00:03:32.000 What's happening, Search?

00:03:33.000 Uh, not much.

00:03:34.000 Hey Kingsley, good to see you again, too.

00:03:35.000 Uh, let's just get into the show, Tim, whenever you're ready.

00:03:37.000 Here we go!

00:03:38.000 We got a culture war start for all of you.

00:03:40.000 ALX on Twitter says, Taylor Lorenz says she's being shadowbanned on threads!

00:03:46.000 And then a laughing, crying emoji.

00:03:48.000 Now, for those of you that aren't familiar, Taylor Lorenz is a very prominent mainstream media reporter.

00:03:52.000 She's worked for a bunch of, uh, very large publications, very critical of Elon Musk, very left-leaning.

00:03:58.000 Now, she, like many other woke reporters, left Twitter Complaining that Elon Musk was going to make it riddled with hate speech or whatever, but now she has these threads up on threads of all places Complaining that she is being censored.

00:04:12.000 Let me just tell you we're going over You know our content product, you know production and everything and what we want to do and we want to do sketches and jokes we're working on the skateboarding show and I'm like, you know, we can put whatever we want on X and We can go on X, we can make any joke we want, no matter how vulgar or whatever, and rumble too.

00:04:30.000 But Facebook will get banned, TikTok will get banned, Instagram will get banned.

00:04:35.000 That's obvious to anyone with a brain.

00:04:37.000 So all of these woke journalists that thought they were gonna rush over to Threads and are now complaining about it?

00:04:41.000 Surprise, surprise.

00:04:43.000 She posted, I posted the cover of yesterday's New York Post to Threads, talking about how hypothetical, I'm sorry, how hypocritical, The New York Post is in their criticism of Metta when they published the same four Thinspo images they're bashing Metta for.

00:04:56.000 I don't know what she's referring to.

00:04:57.000 What did Threads do?

00:04:58.000 Locked me out of my Instagram account until I deleted the thread and sent this message to my Threads account saying they're going to shadowban me.

00:05:05.000 Absolutely insane levels of censorship where we can't even discuss the media's coverage of Metta on Metta's own apps.

00:05:11.000 Well, on Twitter you can talk about whatever you want.

00:05:13.000 How are we supposed to critique media or cover the media when meta essentially bans all discussions on certain stories and topics?

00:05:20.000 It's terrible for free expression and I wish more people in the media held meta to account for their dangerously blunt moderation tactics.

00:05:27.000 What I absolutely love about this is that this tweet could have been from six years ago on Twitter from someone on the right and now it's coming from a woke reporter Who is on Mark Zuckerberg's threads, and she did not have to leave Twitter.

00:05:40.000 Like, things have gotten so much better.

00:05:42.000 So, let me just say, this is... I mean, I guess it's schadenfreude, that's kind of funny.

00:05:46.000 That's why Alex is posting the laughing emoji to see Taylor Lorenz be like, oh no, I'm being censored.

00:05:50.000 It's like, well, that kind of proves our point, right?

00:05:52.000 Others are probably just gloating in her being censored.

00:05:55.000 But I think it's a good sign.

00:05:56.000 And I think it shows you how important it was that Elon Musk took the actions that he did.

00:06:01.000 It proves him right. 0.92

00:06:03.000 It kind of reminds me of the reverse of when people who are liberal and live in big cities move to small towns and then want to change it.

00:06:10.000 Like, she was somewhere that had free speech, left it, and now is like, but why is there no free speech?

00:06:15.000 This is crazy!

00:06:16.000 I mean, I don't think Zuckerberg promised anyone anything other than to sell all your data to China.

00:06:21.000 And that's my personal opinion.

00:06:23.000 I think, I think, uh, well, I'll just go as conspiratorial as possible.

00:06:27.000 I think Threads is probably, uh, intelligence, U.S.

00:06:31.000 intelligence agencies.

00:06:32.000 It's just Feds? 0.81

00:06:34.000 I totally forgot it existed, but to your point, this always, like, cracks me up, I guess, like, ALX, because I love when, like, this sort of thing happens to leftists, right?

00:06:42.000 Because it's the monster that they created coming for them.

00:06:45.000 They were totally fine with the revolution until they became the target.

00:06:49.000 Taylor Renz, I think, the Twitter files showed She's reported more accounts than practically any other user on the platform.

00:06:55.000 She was a champion for the censorship cause, and now it's coming for her, and I think it's hilarious to watch.

00:07:01.000 It's also this phenomenon where people will go from system to system to system, and they'll see the same problem in every system, but they'll go like, this system's broken!

00:07:09.000 Who's in charge of this system?

00:07:11.000 Fix it! 1.00

00:07:11.000 They go to the next one. 1.00

00:07:12.000 This system's broken!

00:07:13.000 Who's in charge of this?

00:07:14.000 But what they don't see is the pattern.

00:07:14.000 Fix it!

00:07:16.000 Yeah, it would have been interesting if she had been like, as an experiment, I posted this thing to see how Meta would respond to it, and they have censored me, and therefore Meta doesn't like whatever, but instead it's like, I am the victim, this system is not helping me the way I think it should, it's not obeying my desires, even though it never agreed to give me these things in the first place.

00:07:34.000 Instagram's way worse.

00:07:34.000 It's only worse.

00:07:36.000 And the funny thing is when conservatives and libertarians came out and said, yeah, threads is way worse.

00:07:42.000 We all tried it.

00:07:44.000 The leftist media organizations came out and accused all of us of being conspiracy theorists and lying and making these stories up.

00:07:50.000 And now they're reaping what they've sown.

00:07:52.000 They all jumped onto this. 1.00

00:07:54.000 I mean, look, X, Twitter, whatever, is this massive shit. 0.99

00:07:59.000 And there's concerns about whether or not there's going to be enough fuel for it because all these advertisers are pulling out. 0.99

00:08:03.000 Fine.

00:08:04.000 But Mark Zuckerberg pulls up on this dinghy and he's like, everybody hop on board.

00:08:08.000 And they're all like, yeah.

00:08:09.000 And they all jump onto this little dinghy that Mark Zuckerberg's driving around in.

00:08:13.000 And it doesn't work.

00:08:15.000 And this is what we get.

00:08:17.000 I guess people can revel in schadenfreude or whatever.

00:08:17.000 So I don't know.

00:08:20.000 But going back to what I was saying, I think it's deep state.

00:08:23.000 I think we can say a few things that are absolutely fair.

00:08:26.000 One, it is not a conspiracy.

00:08:28.000 It's actually a fact.

00:08:29.000 It is historical record.

00:08:30.000 U.S.

00:08:31.000 intelligence agencies were in direct communication with all of the big tech companies running social media to manipulate and control speech.

00:08:38.000 This was directly related to the Hunter Biden laptop interfering with elections.

00:08:42.000 That's how extreme it was.

00:08:44.000 I was personally targeted by the government and leftist tactics with the, what is it?

00:08:50.000 Was it the EIC?

00:08:52.000 Or was it EIP?

00:08:54.000 It was EIP, right?

00:08:54.000 Election Integrity Partnership or something?

00:08:56.000 Where they tried getting people banned and taking things down.

00:08:59.000 And they did successfully do this.

00:09:00.000 Government colluding with researchers.

00:09:03.000 They call them researchers.

00:09:04.000 This is how they can launder government censorship. 0.86

00:09:07.000 We know for a fact they're doing it.

00:09:09.000 Okay.

00:09:09.000 Then Elon Musk says he's going to buy Axe.

00:09:11.000 And he's gonna, you know, there's talk of restoring all these accounts, bringing people back, and uh-oh.

00:09:16.000 Deep State's gonna get exposed.

00:09:18.000 Intelligence agencies did get exposed.

00:09:21.000 At the exact same time this is going down, Mark Zuckerberg announces threats.

00:09:25.000 Simple solution is that Zuckerberg said, hey, I got a great opportunity to make a competitor right now to Twitter, and all these people who are mad Elon's buying it, we can give them space.

00:09:36.000 He created a Canada equivalent.

00:09:38.000 Yeah, and that's a simple explanation.

00:09:41.000 And now I'll give you the simple conspiratorial explanation, which I believe is extremely likely to be true.

00:09:46.000 Upon announcing this, the CIA, the FBI, Biden administration contacted Mark Zuckerberg because they were already in direct communication and said, we definitely want to be able to access threads in the same way as everything else.

00:10:00.000 And Zuck probably said, don't worry, it'll function the same as other platforms.

00:10:03.000 You will have access.

00:10:06.000 And that's where we are now.

00:10:07.000 There's the bolder, less likely conspiracy in that the Deep State directly went to Zuckerberg and said, you gotta do something about this.

00:10:15.000 You need to make some kind of competitor.

00:10:17.000 Can you do it?

00:10:18.000 I would not be surprised, to be honest, to find out that someone in government went to Zuckerberg and suggested it.

00:10:24.000 Not that they demanded it or mandated it, but I wouldn't be surprised if some emails got released through a FOIA request or something where it shows someone in the Biden White House said, hey, Mark, are you able to make something?

00:10:34.000 Because, you know, this Twitter stuff is bad.

00:10:36.000 And then Zuckerberg said yes.

00:10:38.000 I think it's arrogance on Zuckerberg's part, though, to think that his technology and what he would build would be able to compete with Twitter slash X or whatever it was called at the time.

00:10:47.000 I mean, people are really devoted to Twitter as a platform.

00:10:50.000 It was revolutionary in what it was creating.

00:10:53.000 And I think that original medium, we've seen other people.

00:10:55.000 I mean, there's Truth Social.

00:10:56.000 There are a couple other competitors out there that just haven't been able to achieve it.

00:11:01.000 And so to think, oh, well, because it's already connected to your Instagram account, therefore somehow That will convert people I think just shows how out of touch or how much he underestimated Axe and Elon's ability to retain loyal supporters.

00:11:14.000 It's like Google Plus, remember that?

00:11:16.000 For like a second, but I forgot what it was, and they had Hangouts.

00:11:18.000 Was that a thing?

00:11:19.000 Yeah, Hangouts.

00:11:20.000 Hangouts were actually pretty big for a while.

00:11:21.000 They were?

00:11:22.000 Yeah, Google Plus wasn't.

00:11:24.000 But Hangouts were because it was the easiest way to do a web-based live chat with multiple people.

00:11:31.000 Now it's all Zoom or whatever.

00:11:33.000 But if Google made Hangouts and kept pushing that, people wouldn't be doing Zoom meetings, they'd be doing Hangouts.

00:11:38.000 Yeah.

00:11:39.000 Because that's what a lot of people were doing.

00:11:41.000 They just had to get that pandemic earlier, if only.

00:11:43.000 If only.

00:11:44.000 You know, the thing about Google is they just don't understand how to be cool.

00:11:47.000 So what happens is everyone's pissed at Facebook.

00:11:49.000 So Google Plus announces, you know, we're making a social platform and everybody wanted it.

00:11:54.000 But they said, no, no, no, no, no.

00:11:55.000 Limited users only.

00:11:57.000 Send out a bunch of invites.

00:11:59.000 Tons of people signed up.

00:12:00.000 I actually had, what did I have?

00:12:01.000 I had like 500,000 followers on Google Plus.

00:12:05.000 Yeah, weird.

00:12:06.000 They totally mismanaged YouTube.

00:12:08.000 They should have made YouTube the social network.

00:12:10.000 Calling it Google Plus and Google Hangout and Google this and that.

00:12:13.000 And they tried doing that.

00:12:14.000 You had YouTube.

00:12:15.000 They tried doing that and it was killing YouTube.

00:12:17.000 So anyway, what they should have done at this point with Google Plus was...

00:12:21.000 As soon as the demand was at maximum capacity and everybody wanted an invite, they should have said, I'm sorry everyone, it's an exclusive platform only, and then two hours later said, you know what?

00:12:31.000 We're opening it up, baby!

00:12:32.000 And then they would have won.

00:12:34.000 Instantly.

00:12:35.000 They did the same thing with Google Glass.

00:12:37.000 They launch something, everybody wants it, and then they say, nah, you can't have it.

00:12:42.000 And then eventually some woke journalist goes, well, I didn't want it anyway.

00:12:47.000 You're a glasshole.

00:12:48.000 And then all of a sudden nobody wants to buy Google Glass anymore. 0.99

00:12:51.000 It went from the coolest thing everybody wanted to just total garbage.

00:12:55.000 Yeah, I had some faith when Google bought YouTube that it would be, I mean, they were able to start funding it with the partner program, which is pretty cool.

00:13:02.000 But like Larry and Sergey are like uber nerds, you know, so the company's kind of like uber nerdy.

00:13:07.000 It's just the way it was built.

00:13:09.000 I like them, but they were nerdy.

00:13:10.000 There was a period, I think it was, um... Let's see, what year would it have been?

00:13:14.000 Maybe like 2013 or 14, I'm not sure.

00:13:18.000 No, it was probably way earlier than that.

00:13:20.000 Google was trying to integrate YouTube and Google+.

00:13:24.000 They wanted YouTube to turn into Google+.

00:13:27.000 And when they started integrating it...

00:13:29.000 People started fleeing and complaining like crazy, and so then they backed off.

00:13:32.000 It was like they had three stops.

00:13:34.000 You could either go to Google+, you could go to your Google Hangout, which was connected to your Google phone number, or was it to your other Google account?

00:13:40.000 I had three of them, you know, three different emails attached to three different accounts, and I couldn't get them to consolidate.

00:13:45.000 It was such a mess.

00:13:47.000 I can understand why these platforms want to grow and become more things they have to compete.

00:13:51.000 I mean, the same ways that Instagram added Reels, the short form video, to directly compete with TikTok, that makes sense to me.

00:13:57.000 They're more similar.

00:13:58.000 But I don't understand, and maybe it's because, and I don't know if anyone in this room can answer it, I don't understand the point of threads.

00:14:03.000 I've never opened it, and I'm not sure how it differentiates from the YouTube, like, community tab.

00:14:07.000 Threads.

00:14:08.000 Isn't that what...

00:14:09.000 Threads is like Twitter.

00:14:11.000 Threads is like Twitter, but then YouTube has the community tab, right?

00:14:15.000 Isn't that where people can message if they're really into a creator or whatever?

00:14:18.000 No, that's kind of like a Twitter feed for your YouTube, but it's basically linked to your YouTube, so it's used to, for the most part, hey guys, heads up.

00:14:27.000 Just like announcements.

00:14:28.000 See, I feel like it would make more sense to me to have an integrated competitor to X on YouTube because people are already alive and well in the comment sections there.

00:14:37.000 To make a competitor on Instagram seems weird to me.

00:14:39.000 I just open threads and the first thing I see I've got, let's see, Michaela Peterson and then Charlie Kirk.

00:14:48.000 And there's two replies to Charlie Kirk's post.

00:14:51.000 Yeah, the engagement is terrible.

00:14:52.000 Three likes.

00:14:53.000 I don't know.

00:14:54.000 Charlie, why are you using threads?

00:14:56.000 You should make threads right now.

00:14:57.000 Kingsley, I bet you could be the most dominant person by the end of the episode.

00:15:00.000 There you go.

00:15:00.000 Oh, okay.

00:15:01.000 I think Michaela Peterson's responding to a bunch of people criticizing her dad.

00:15:06.000 It's exhilarating.

00:15:08.000 Because all the lefties went there, though, it's just like a cesspool of, like, it's an echo chamber in many ways.

00:15:13.000 And I feel like the fun parts about Twitter, about YouTube, are, like, fighting in the comments and, like, seeing people dunk on other people.

00:15:19.000 Like, that's why I love Twitter.

00:15:20.000 I think that's why a lot of people love Twitter.

00:15:22.000 Wow.

00:15:22.000 So when you take that away, you just lose the user experience.

00:15:25.000 Unless they start infighting, which could be interesting.

00:15:27.000 Maybe, yeah.

00:15:27.000 Who checked threads during the outbreak of the Hamas-Israel conflict?

00:15:31.000 Because maybe it was, like, alive and well then.

00:15:33.000 Oh, I forgot to check my threads, that's why.

00:15:35.000 Because that's when I think a lot of the left was up in arms.

00:15:37.000 Not that it wasn't true on the right, but it was a particularly challenging time for, like, the most progressive angle of the party versus the more moderate side.

00:15:44.000 They were fighting a lot.

00:15:45.000 I wonder if threads allowed any kind of discontent.

00:15:48.000 I don't trust them.

00:15:49.000 Proprietary software in general, but I really don't trust public companies when they do social networks like X is private still at this I'm pretty sure X is still private and mines is private you have rumble well rumble just went public But that's like road to co-op.

00:16:03.000 I want to I want I we got something interesting here I'm gonna pull up this story real quick.

00:16:07.000 This is from Mashable This is by Matt Bender, and he's wrong.

00:16:19.000 I think he's lying.

00:16:21.000 I mean, it's hard to say.

00:16:22.000 They like to say Donald Trump lied, and I always ask, well, is he wrong or is he lying?

00:16:26.000 There's a difference, right?

00:16:27.000 I think Matt's lying, because I'm willing to bet, in this, Here it is, here it is.

00:16:33.000 Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Walmart decided to stop advertising on Elon Musk's X, joining a slew of other major companies that have fled the social media platform in recent weeks.

00:16:41.000 Second paragraph, quote, We aren't advertising on X, as we've found other platforms to better reach our customers, a Walmart spokesperson told Reuters, which first reported on the retail chain's decision to suspend ad campaigns on the website.

00:16:55.000 Walmart's decision to stop advertising comes after a mustard, go off yourself, etc, etc.

00:16:59.000 But the issue is, the greater quote from Walmart was something... Let me pull up Reuters, because I got Mashable here on purpose.

00:17:07.000 Walmart says it's not advertising on social platform X, right.

00:17:10.000 But the actual quote they say has nothing to do with any of this.

00:17:13.000 I'm pretty sure they said we stopped advertising in October.

00:17:16.000 No, this is kind of crazy to see.

00:17:18.000 A lot of news outlets are reporting this.

00:17:21.000 I think there is a potential that Walmart is trying to not be involved and lower their amount of ad spending.

00:17:29.000 But the original story reporting this, Walmart said they slowed down their ad spend back in October.

00:17:35.000 It has nothing to do with what Elon said.

00:17:38.000 Now it's being reported by these organizations that it's, you know, Walmart joining the ad boycott.

00:17:43.000 Now, either way, a lot of money is being lost by Axe.

00:17:46.000 And one of the interesting things, actually, I just pulled up threads for the previous segment, and one of the first things that is suggested to me, I don't follow Hank Green, but it's Hank Green, he said, numbers for the curious.

00:17:57.000 In the last 30 days, TikTok views 37 million, TikTok rev share $3,600.

00:18:05.000 RPM is 10 cents.

00:18:07.000 YouTube Shorts views, $41,000,000.

00:18:08.000 YouTube Shorts Rev, $4,400,000.

00:18:09.000 Oh, 41 million views?

00:18:09.000 41 million views.

00:18:11.000 You said dollars.

00:18:12.000 No, no, sorry, sorry.

00:18:13.000 41 million views, $4,400,000.

00:18:13.000 Reels views, doesn't report, minimum is $13,000,000.

00:18:16.000 Oh, no, yes, sorry, sorry.

00:18:17.000 41 million views, $4,400.

00:18:20.000 Reel's views doesn't report, minimum is 13 million.

00:18:24.000 His share was $988 for a 7-cent RPM.

00:18:29.000 That's interesting in how you make literally no money, no money on these platforms for all of these views.

00:18:37.000 That's kind of crazy that on TikTok you get 37 million views, you get...

00:18:43.000 Wow, you're getting $3,600.

00:18:46.000 You have to be one of the most famous people to make a living.

00:18:50.000 Hank Green is one of, like, the biggest social media influencers, and he's only making $3,600 a month off TikTok?

00:18:57.000 Okay, combine them all, and he's gonna be making, what, like, $150K a year?

00:19:02.000 Being one of the most famous personalities?

00:19:04.000 There's almost no point in doing any of those posts.

00:19:07.000 It's all just being whittled down.

00:19:09.000 The crazy thing is when you look at X and the ad boycott, I'm wondering how this will impact how much money people are already getting because the rates there are super low too.

00:19:19.000 I get like 200 million.

00:19:21.000 Impressions on my, on my profile, I get about 5,500 per month from the, from the ad share deal.

00:19:28.000 Now it's probably going to go to nothing because of what's going on.

00:19:30.000 As more people become influencers too, like every human pretty much has a camera and can as their side job, make a video about what they do with their main job at the very least that the ad revenue, I don't think ad revenue models are the way to go.

00:19:30.000 Yeah.

00:19:42.000 I think it's super chats and direct subscriptions.

00:19:45.000 Plus then the, the advertiser can't pull the rug on your entire business model.

00:19:49.000 Do you think that this data will become public enough to deter Gen Z? 0.99

00:19:54.000 Like, this is what Gen Z wants to do with their lives. 0.99

00:19:55.000 Most of them want to be an influencer or they talk about wanting to be, you know, a social media personality.

00:20:00.000 This is regularly something they report.

00:20:02.000 Is this sort of like when everyone wants to be an actor and then at a certain point, I mean, I'm sure you experienced this too, people are like, but are you actually going to support yourself doing that?

00:20:10.000 Only a couple people make it big.

00:20:12.000 At what point do people realize this idea that social media is the only way, like this influencer pathway, is it going to become less romantic for the youngest generation?

00:20:21.000 Hopefully soon, because if you make internet videos but you do nothing with your life, they're not going to be very interesting videos.

00:20:28.000 But if you're a mechanic and you make internet videos and you rope in the mechanics into that, it becomes very interesting.

00:20:34.000 So they're synergistic.

00:20:36.000 Everyone, in my opinion, should have the opportunity to become an internet video star.

00:20:42.000 And you should highlight the cool things you do in your life.

00:20:44.000 You could make a YouTube channel.

00:20:47.000 Where you personally put things in boxes, wrap those boxes, and then call it Unboxing Presents Channel, and you literally just film yourself slowly unwrapping a box.

00:21:00.000 I'm not even joking.

00:21:02.000 People love those.

00:21:03.000 No, people love this stuff.

00:21:05.000 So you've got viral videos of people opening, like, Pokemon cards.

00:21:09.000 It doesn't matter.

00:21:10.000 People just want to see what's inside.

00:21:12.000 It's the weirdest thing.

00:21:14.000 So, you don't need to be interesting at all.

00:21:16.000 You just need to make content and then hypnotize people.

00:21:19.000 You know what I really love?

00:21:21.000 I love the hydraulic press channel.

00:21:23.000 Yeah, me too.

00:21:24.000 Now there's like 12 of them.

00:21:24.000 I watch a lot of that.

00:21:26.000 Then there's the red hot nickel ball.

00:21:29.000 Get a lot of those.

00:21:30.000 Yeah, now there's like 12 of them.

00:21:32.000 And I have a really good idea that I wanted to do, but it's very dangerous.

00:21:36.000 I want to electrocute things.

00:21:38.000 I'm like, how many volts in amps or whatever until a teddy bear bursts into flames?

00:21:43.000 But you know that someone else would be like, yeah, I do want to click on that video.

00:21:45.000 I want to know how many volts it takes.

00:21:47.000 I know.

00:21:47.000 And you know what my idea was?

00:21:49.000 You do it live, and then every viewer, like, increases the voltage by a certain number.

00:21:54.000 Especially when water's involved.

00:21:56.000 Like, watching electricity go through water is fascinating.

00:21:59.000 See, there you go.

00:21:59.000 But that's the question!

00:22:00.000 And then you get, like, 20,000 people watching, and then, like, the energy level's, you know, going up.

00:22:05.000 That'd be fun, right?

00:22:06.000 Yeah, I think there's a lot of things.

00:22:07.000 It's not that I'm against people making stuff, obviously, and putting it on the internet.

00:22:12.000 I'm for it.

00:22:12.000 I just want that to be clear.

00:22:13.000 It's just, at a certain point, does it pay out the way people think it's going to?

00:22:17.000 And is this a long-term sustainable career?

00:22:19.000 Because I think that's why you need the influencer ecosystem between all of the platforms.

00:22:23.000 Not one platform really generates enough revenue for a medium-sized person to sustain themselves, is what it sounds like to me, and I don't know.

00:22:31.000 Yeah, definitely not to sustain, but like Ian was saying earlier, it could be a side hustle.

00:22:36.000 I feel like a lot of people have multiple jobs these days anyway by an economy.

00:22:40.000 So, you know, just filming your job day-to-day, I think people can put that kind of content out there and it's pretty easy.

00:22:45.000 How many people have tried doing the, I'm going to drive an Uber and film it and put the videos of conversations on the internet?

00:22:52.000 I've heard that idea 8,000 times and I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, get in line.

00:22:56.000 Does Uber let you do that?

00:22:58.000 They do record, some cars do record whatever's happening, right?

00:23:01.000 I'm pretty sure they do, you just gotta tell people.

00:23:04.000 It's like, hey, like when they get in your car and be like, hey, do you mind if I film and then put the thing on my YouTube channel?

00:23:08.000 And if someone says no, they're like, okay, and then you don't.

00:23:11.000 But Uber is a bad job anyway.

00:23:13.000 I feel bad for Uber drivers.

00:23:14.000 You cannot make a living doing that.

00:23:15.000 It destroys your car.

00:23:17.000 No, it costs more to drive your car.

00:23:19.000 Yeah, when I get a ride from the airport to here and it's a hundred bucks, I'm like, what is that?

00:23:23.000 Like 60, 40 of it goes to the driver?

00:23:25.000 Yeah, it's crazy.

00:23:26.000 And that's all?

00:23:27.000 That's going to cover gas and the wear on the car?

00:23:29.000 Yeah.

00:23:30.000 And they just spent two and a half hours driving me?

00:23:32.000 Like what?

00:23:33.000 Yeah, I was reading like in New York that Uber doesn't pay enough to cover the cost of the wear and tear on the car and gas, but people don't realize wear and tear, so they're like, alright, yeah, made 60 bucks, and it's like, by the end of the month, that money, you're gonna be negative because your car's gonna break, and then you have no job.

00:23:48.000 I wish we still had taxis.

00:23:49.000 I miss taxis.

00:23:50.000 Those were great.

00:23:51.000 They still exist!

00:23:52.000 You know, but good luck.

00:23:54.000 Yeah.

00:23:55.000 They've been protesting quite a bit because they got screwed over by New York.

00:23:59.000 But anyway, man, social media is a wild thing.

00:24:02.000 And I'm kind of feeling like if we do move into this A.I.

00:24:06.000 automated future where all work is just being taken... My nightmare.

00:24:11.000 Yeah, just cars drive themselves.

00:24:13.000 I'm seeing more videos pop up on Instagram of just, you know, like, we've automated this job and that job, and you've got all the self-driving cars now.

00:24:20.000 The only job you're gonna have is competing with each other to get eyeballs, and then humans are going to become more insane than they already are.

00:24:27.000 Because already, if we're looking at, you need 37 million views to make three grand.

00:24:31.000 Imagine the psychotic behaviors people will adopt to try and make this work.

00:24:36.000 Yeah.

00:24:37.000 They're gonna, they're gonna, I don't know, develop very serious personality disorders.

00:24:43.000 But that's gotta be bad for the human race.

00:24:45.000 It's gotta be bad, literally it's bad.

00:24:47.000 Do they develop them or do the people who are prone to those personality disorders, do they want to be online doing these things?

00:24:53.000 Is it sort of like a natural, it's a mosque to a flame? 1.00

00:24:55.000 Probably both.

00:24:56.000 I think this is where wokeness comes from.

00:24:58.000 People are online and they're trying to find ways to hit the algorithm, and the algorithms are leading lemmings off a cliff.

00:25:05.000 But what that makes me think is, like, the market tends to adjust and adopt for what is good and what makes sense for society.

00:25:12.000 I think in general, maybe not, maybe it just leads towards whatever's most addictive.

00:25:15.000 But if the thing is bringing no value but adding psychosis to the system, I would imagine that the market would weed it out.

00:25:22.000 Why?

00:25:22.000 What if we can't tell it's psychosis because we're so used to it because we consume so much of this content that we can't tell the difference between what's normal and what's not anymore?

00:25:29.000 That's a good point.

00:25:30.000 We're there.

00:25:31.000 We're absolutely there.

00:25:32.000 So, if everybody believes something because everyone's sharing it, I mean, we can see the beginnings of this with the Covington Catholic kids.

00:25:40.000 Everybody sees the video, they assume it's true.

00:25:44.000 They just said, this kid got in that guy's face.

00:25:46.000 And then, uh-oh, a two-hour livestream was uncovered showing actually it was the other way around.

00:25:50.000 Well, I was just looking up the, uh, what you said, like, that Walmart had pulled the ads in October and I found it, but I had to dig deep into Google because even though that was how they initially reported X, uh, the Joe Baranach, I can't say his name, head of operations at X said that Walmart started pulling its advertising.

00:26:07.000 It hasn't advertised since October.

00:26:08.000 So.

00:26:08.000 Right.

00:26:09.000 The narrative that is being spun to the top of Google is actually different from the way it was originally reported.

00:26:12.000 They decided what was coming out.

00:26:14.000 They're shifting reality.

00:26:15.000 And I think that's been the best part of X, honestly.

00:26:17.000 Like, as a user, we can fact check these people in real time now.

00:26:21.000 Journalists have just been able to push their narratives for decades, and we haven't been able to, you know, dig and actually find it for ourselves.

00:26:27.000 A lot of people don't have the time or the willingness to do that.

00:26:29.000 So X slapping a community note on something like this, I think, is super beneficial.

00:26:34.000 Yeah.

00:26:34.000 Yeah, there's a couple ways to look at it.

00:26:35.000 It could be that Walmart was the first to boycott.

00:26:40.000 And no one reported it.

00:26:41.000 So if they're reporting- There's such trendsetters, Walmart.

00:26:43.000 Yeah, I mean, if they're saying Walmart has just joined, no, no, no, no, because they stopped advertising a long time ago.

00:26:49.000 Or it's completely unrelated.

00:26:51.000 But I'll tell you what proves that it's all fake.

00:26:55.000 I'm gonna prove to you right now, you live in a fake world, likely just being perpetuated by the deep state because money is fake, fiat currencies.

00:27:03.000 Here's a story from India, who is it, Indian Express?

00:27:06.000 There you go.

00:27:07.000 The Indian Express, a bastion of journalism, says X slash Twitter has higher organic traffic, but lower ad revenue than Facebook and Instagram Elon Musk.

00:27:17.000 He posted this.

00:27:19.000 And you can see, Twitter's SE traffic, 650.9 million.

00:27:25.000 Paid traffic is 1.1 thousand, almost none.

00:27:27.000 Paid traffic price, 14.3k.

00:27:30.000 You can look at Instagram, they have 100 thousand in paid traffic.

00:27:34.000 And Facebook has 708 thousand in paid traffic, with even less views.

00:27:38.000 So not only does Twitter have way more traffic, way less of it is paid traffic.

00:27:44.000 So this means, with advertisers pulling off effects, or, to give credit to the leftists who are saying Walmart's jumping ship, Walmart's saying we're doing better on other platforms?

00:27:53.000 I don't buy it.

00:27:54.000 I don't believe they are.

00:27:56.000 I've also done advertising on these other platforms, and I believe that most of it is fake.

00:28:00.000 A bot will watch your ad, and then they'll say, well, we assume it's real.

00:28:04.000 Cause how are they supposed to know?

00:28:05.000 I knew these dudes who were starting a company that's, that's their whole job.

00:28:08.000 The whole company premise was to, to, you'd, you'd, they would operate in between the company and the social media platform.

00:28:15.000 So company would say, we want to do an ad.

00:28:18.000 Then social media company would say, okay, they would go in the middle and track all of the link clicks to see how many were fake and how many were not.

00:28:26.000 And I think they were telling me like around half or more is fake.

00:28:30.000 Half.

00:28:30.000 So that means when you spend ten bucks, you think you're getting a certain amount of views, you're getting half that.

00:28:34.000 It's all fake.

00:28:35.000 So now we know that Twitter is the best, why aren't they- why isn't anybody spending money there?

00:28:41.000 Why spend money on Facebook when we all know Facebook isn't giving you the same return?

00:28:45.000 Because Elon Musk bad, Tim.

00:28:47.000 We can't be anywhere near him.

00:28:49.000 Him and that orange guy.

00:28:50.000 Yep.

00:28:51.000 I think the targeted ads are enticing with Facebook.

00:28:55.000 They track people so well, you can be like, I'm looking for 27-year-old males that wear red hats, that live near Philadelphia, that are awake between the hours of 4 and 9 p.m., and like, I don't know if Twitter can offer that kind of targeted Ad revenue.

00:29:10.000 I mean, even if half of them are bots, that's still really, really good targeting.

00:29:14.000 But it actually means that the price is twice as high because you're getting half as many views.

00:29:17.000 It's more than twice.

00:29:19.000 Oh, you mean to advertise to targeted audiences is like $8 for 1,000 views, whereas on target it's like $1.50 for 1,000 views.

00:29:25.000 But is that what your question was?

00:29:27.000 No, what I'm saying is, like, if I were to spend whatever amount of money, because I think that's gonna get me a thousand views, but actually it's getting me five hundred, the price per view is much higher than they're advertising.

00:29:36.000 But they're reporting to you it's a thousand views.

00:29:38.000 Exactly.

00:29:38.000 And they're just not telling you that the other half are fake.

00:29:41.000 Let's jump to this story.

00:29:42.000 We got this tweet from AI Not Kill Everyone-ism Memes, okay?

00:29:48.000 And they're playing a video from Sam Altman, who says he fears the impact that AI is going to have on the election.

00:29:57.000 It's not deepfakes.

00:29:58.000 He makes a really great point.

00:30:00.000 He says the main worry I have is not one that gets airtime.

00:30:03.000 On the issue of deepfakes, he says we all, you know, talking about deepfakes is fighting the last war.

00:30:09.000 We all have some degree of immunity to this.

00:30:11.000 We know that when there's a video or photo or audio, we should check and make sure it could be fake.

00:30:17.000 And then he's asked, well then what do you mean?

00:30:18.000 And he says, the thing I'm really worried about is customized one-on-one persuasion ability.

00:30:23.000 A foreign adversary that has trained their own AI system that none of us even know about.

00:30:28.000 Like systems on the internet powered by AI that are just like subtly influencing you.

00:30:34.000 The interviewer says, I fear manipulation by AI ease my concerns.

00:30:37.000 I just want to, you know, I bring this up because guys, 2024 is around the corner.

00:30:42.000 We're going to be off for the last week of this month.

00:30:44.000 So there's only a couple of weeks left.

00:30:46.000 We're going to be doing shows and talking about this stuff, but 2024 is just about here.

00:30:51.000 And this is already happening.

00:30:54.000 100% already, starting in probably 2015, and getting crazier.

00:30:59.000 Actually, I think it's fair to say, with the advent of social media, this degree of manipulation has existed, and it's been getting crazier and crazier, and as of right now, I'm willing to bet you are already being manipulated by AI.

00:31:13.000 Now, of course, I know the immediate reaction from everybody is, that's not what AI means, Tim.

00:31:17.000 You're talking about algorithms.

00:31:19.000 And it's like, okay, dude, no, we're speaking generally.

00:31:21.000 That computers are automated to the point where they're manipulating information in a variety of ways to sell products or to get people to win elections.

00:31:29.000 And I say AI because it's probably already outside the control of human beings.

00:31:33.000 So when you go on Twitter, when you go on Facebook, Instagram, or whatever, you don't realize this, but yeah, they are probably, you are probably being influenced by this machine that has no end goal, no real intention.

00:31:48.000 Here's the scary thing.

00:31:49.000 A human being has a goal.

00:31:51.000 I want this person to be president for this reason.

00:31:53.000 An AI has, I want this person to stare at the screen for 10 seconds longer.

00:31:58.000 And it will throw whatever in front of your face to make that happen.

00:32:02.000 Now, of course, people are going to say that's an algorithm.

00:32:03.000 Sure, fine.

00:32:04.000 If you're talking about artificial general intelligence, then the real fear is the AGI will make you serve it as a demigod master, and you won't even realize that you live for the machine. 0.66

00:32:18.000 But, you know, in the general sense, we are all already being manipulated for the 2024 election that's happening now.

00:32:24.000 Yeah, I think you're right.

00:32:25.000 I've stopped, not completely, but I've kind of stopped taking negative comments seriously, even remotely, if I don't know who they're from.

00:32:32.000 I even tell myself sometimes it's probably an AI. 0.97

00:32:35.000 And I know it's not probably an AI, but it's possibly an AI, and I'm just not going to taint my mind with that crap. 0.99

00:32:42.000 You're breaking out of the matrix. 0.95

00:32:43.000 Yeah, but the positive comments I still take seriously.

00:32:46.000 Those are AI.

00:32:48.000 Dead Internet Theory, dude.

00:32:49.000 You know Dead Internet Theory?

00:32:50.000 I know that, what, 80% of the people on the internet are fake.

00:32:54.000 And you go and you're talking to a computer.

00:32:57.000 Dude, you're standing in front of... I got 1.8 million followers, almost 1.9 million followers, and so when I tweet, What people think is that there's a million, two million people all standing there, like, with their phones up, recording, when in reality, maybe it's a hundred thousand, who knows?

00:33:14.000 They have these apps where you can, like, check how many files are organic, and whenever I do it, it's like, oh, they're all real, or whatever, I don't buy it.

00:33:21.000 I think the whole thing is fake.

00:33:22.000 I tweet something out, I get a bunch of generic random anime squirrels or whatever and I'm

00:33:27.000 just like, fake.

00:33:28.000 I wonder if the AI that Sam Altman's talking about is like, all it's trying to do is confuse

00:33:33.000 you.

00:33:34.000 So whatever you make a video, you make a video about, I walked in the sky was beautiful today,

00:33:37.000 you get a comment of, no it was really nasty out.

00:33:40.000 Or you say, I really like this candidate for president. 0.84

00:33:42.000 Well, that candidate's really nasty. 0.87

00:33:44.000 Don't you see?

00:33:45.000 I assume the AI wants you to continue to interact with it.

00:33:48.000 That's what its ultimate goal is because it needs your input to have data to continue to make decisions about what to do next.

00:33:54.000 I mean, I have a very rudimentary understanding of AI, but that's what it seems like it needs.

00:33:57.000 It needs human interaction to continue to basically use us to figure out what you like to do and to potentially behavioral model or whatever.

00:34:05.000 And so what I find interesting is that we have been Letting ourselves be susceptible to wanting to interact with the AI for a long time.

00:34:15.000 I mean, this is what we talk about with young teenagers who are essentially addicted to social media because they see all their value in the number of likes, the number of engagements, how long their snap streak is.

00:34:25.000 All of these metrics to say, Open your phone right now.

00:34:28.000 You have a notification.

00:34:29.000 You have a click.

00:34:30.000 You want to respond.

00:34:31.000 You don't want to be the one who doesn't respond to the Snapchat story.

00:34:32.000 You have to have something up.

00:34:34.000 Actually, if your Instagram page, if you interact with it enough, it's more likely to show yourself.

00:34:39.000 It's always driving you back to using it all the time, which is also what the AI wants you to do.

00:34:43.000 The AI wants to continue to learn what you're doing, so it needs you to constantly come back to it.

00:34:48.000 Right.

00:34:48.000 And he mentioned specifically, you know, foreign adversaries.

00:34:51.000 I think it's important for us to realize that this isn't just China.

00:34:54.000 Like, it's our own government.

00:34:55.000 To what extent are, you know, agencies like the FBI and the NSA using AI to influence American citizens when they go to vote at the polls in 2024?

00:35:04.000 I mean, I think that needs to be a real concern because you look at an agency like the FBI, who has a long history of entrapping Americans and pushing them and incentivizing them to do certain things.

00:35:14.000 I think, you know, we can't put it past these guys to be using this to reach their own ends.

00:35:18.000 And private companies, for sure.

00:35:20.000 Like reading about the business plot, the Smedley-Butler plot, 1933, these bankers tried to get Smedley-Butler to overthrow the US government and install a fascist dictatorship.

00:35:28.000 Smedley-Butler was like the top general in the United States.

00:35:32.000 They really wanted to overthrow March 500,000 dudes in Washington.

00:35:35.000 This is like a real plot.

00:35:36.000 Why did they want to do it?

00:35:37.000 Because the federal FDR took us off the gold standard and they were like, he's going to destroy the economy.

00:35:42.000 We have to take him out of office and put a Put a general in and become fascist like Mussolini is so crazy that they're like and they're just totally willing like the Federal Reserve information on the Jekyll Island.

00:35:55.000 These guys have like the private sector when we talk about foreign agents that the private sector are foreign agents.

00:36:02.000 Corporations are foreign agents to our government.

00:36:04.000 They're not part of our government.

00:36:06.000 They might exist on in the United States, but they are foreign agents.

00:36:09.000 So if they might also very well be the ones trying to manipulate us.

00:36:12.000 Well, I'm not sure.

00:36:12.000 Well, I mean, we know for a fact it is the government manipulating us, along with the massive corporations.

00:36:18.000 So, you know, welcome to the nightmare.

00:36:21.000 Welcome to hell, baby.

00:36:22.000 It's gonna be... Look, we talked about this last week. 0.99

00:36:26.000 I posted a deepfake of Nancy Pelosi a year and a half ago, and it looked hilariously bad and disgusting.

00:36:31.000 You post a deepfake of Nancy Pelosi now, and it's hilarious and realistic.

00:36:35.000 Where are we gonna be with AI voice deepfaking?

00:36:39.000 It's gonna be perfect.

00:36:42.000 So we're going into 2024, deepfakes are bad, but the real issue is that there's probably already, right now, with GPT being public, there are probably millions of AI chatbot accounts on social media that are programmed just to respond in certain ways, but slightly unique.

00:37:01.000 It used to be That if you searched for a certain phrase, you'd see like 10,000 accounts all tweeting the same exact quote and you knew it was a bot farm or something.

00:37:10.000 But now they're going to use these large language models to generate semi-unique but similar responses.

00:37:17.000 They're going to program into it, whenever you see anything with the subject matter, respond with a quote that has these parameters, and now someone's going to get bombarded by a bunch of cartoon squirrels, communist squirrels on Twitter, and they're going to believe it's real life.

00:37:31.000 And then they're going to be like, I need to behave like this because it's normal.

00:37:35.000 It could be like, if music is played in video, put fire emoji in chat.

00:37:40.000 If user of video says positive things about concept, we want them to talk about positively.

00:37:46.000 If they say negative things in chat, if negative words are used, give thumbs down emoji when music plays.

00:37:52.000 It's crazy manipulative.

00:37:53.000 It's crazy, and that's so rudimentary.

00:37:54.000 You're gonna get three, you're gonna get someone, you're gonna tweet something like, I think that we need to be back on the gold standard, Ron Paul was right.

00:38:02.000 And the AI will generate a response that is five tweets long, numbered, and it's gonna be like, Ian, you're wrong about this, here's why.

00:38:09.000 And you're gonna see a picture of a guy, and you're gonna be like, well, that's probably a real person.

00:38:12.000 And in reality, it's just one of the faceless husks of the narrative machine being programmed to convince you that you're wrong.

00:38:20.000 And they interact with each other.

00:38:22.000 You'll see conversations in the comments, and those could all be AI trying to... Could all be fake.

00:38:26.000 Could all be not real.

00:38:27.000 It's possible that we're not even in this room right now.

00:38:29.000 That everyone watching at home is all CGI.

00:38:33.000 That's where I'm starting to be like, just have kids and spend time with your children, because that's not going to get deepfaked out of you.

00:38:40.000 Maybe people will be tricked into thinking their family is not their family, or vice versa.

00:38:44.000 I want to start asking regular people that I meet, do they have accounts on X or Instagram or TikTok or whatever?

00:38:50.000 So many people I know are not on on X like it's it's hard to be in the media space without being on it and so I think that we have a warped perspective.

00:38:58.000 I think most people I know are not on like my just friends that I have made throughout my life are not on it at all and so there's stuff that blows up online that we know about we think oh this happened and that will influence election but actually like there's a lot of people who don't know about this this thing that trended for a week.

00:39:13.000 It's like a separate universe.

00:39:15.000 Well, one of the stories that we'll get into later is Bill Maher saying, when Roseanne says you're MKUltra, he goes, who's that? 0.95

00:39:22.000 He was played so ignorant in that interview with Roseanne.

00:39:25.000 She brought up Klaus Schwab, and he was like, who's Klaus Schwab? 0.96

00:39:27.000 I'm like, what, really?

00:39:28.000 But no, no, no, this is a guy who lives on CNN.

00:39:30.000 That's Bill Maher's thing.

00:39:32.000 It's like he grew up watching MSNBC, and that is what his worldview is.

00:39:36.000 That's it.

00:39:37.000 It's so funny, though, because leftists and progressives look to him as an intellectual.

00:39:42.000 Like, how ironic is that?

00:39:42.000 No, not anymore.

00:39:43.000 Really?

00:39:44.000 I feel like you do.

00:39:45.000 The left hates Bill Maher.

00:39:46.000 The coastal elites, though, I feel like some of them... Yeah, but those are liberals.

00:39:49.000 Yeah.

00:39:49.000 Leftists think Bill Maher's... Okay, so classical liberals look to him as an intellectual and like... Well, classical liberals are right-wing.

00:39:56.000 So classical liberal refers to right-wing, like, right libertarians.

00:40:04.000 Traditional liberal would refer to like Democrats from 15 years ago.

00:40:07.000 And so that's Bill Maher.

00:40:09.000 Leftists think he's right-wing and they call him a fascist and they call him alt-right and they've called him alt-right for like eight years.

00:40:15.000 It's weird how much the left just dragged themselves over and said, no, the moderates are actually far right. 0.99

00:40:21.000 They're crazy. 0.99

00:40:22.000 Don't listen to them. 0.99

00:40:23.000 They have just completely moved the map.

00:40:26.000 If you ever see one of those videos of someone moving a house across a field, and we all were just like, OK, sounds good.

00:40:31.000 And now the skew of what's right and what's far right and what's left is so off.

00:40:36.000 I feel like we need to just recalibrate it to where most of America actually is.

00:40:39.000 I'm wondering, someone superchatted as a joke, this superchat isn't real, but serious question, have you guys in the chat asked yourselves how many of the people posting are probably not even real and how many of the superchats aren't even real?

00:40:51.000 I'm not even joking.

00:40:52.000 Undercutting the value of our show.

00:40:53.000 Undercutting the value.

00:40:54.000 Not even listening to us.

00:40:55.000 Every once in a while you'll see a comment in the live chat and then immediately the same comment from a different account.

00:41:00.000 Same, like same capitalization, everything, it'll just be two sentences identical.

00:41:05.000 And the other thing, too, is if there is an influence operation, you might be a regular person in the regular chat and you're posting your opinions, and you can't compete with a foreign entity or corporation that is paying for the super chats to make sure their views are more prominently displayed above yours.

00:41:19.000 And speaking of not being able to compete with AI, man, in day trading, you know, you try and do day trading with crypto and you can't compete with the AI.

00:41:28.000 You might make a little bit along with it, but that stuff is driving the market.

00:41:31.000 The crazy stuff is like the crypto arbitrage.

00:41:34.000 Where, like, people make millions of dollars a year doing literally nothing.

00:41:38.000 Just by, like, making a cent on a trade?

00:41:41.000 Yeah, I don't know exactly how it works.

00:41:44.000 Oh, that's where they'll get it on one market and then immediately sell it on another market where it's slightly different price.

00:41:50.000 Sort of.

00:41:50.000 When a transfer is executed, the computer can move in and make a deal faster than a human can.

00:41:57.000 So, when a human's making a deal, it's going through the system, and the computer just instantly jumps in between, and then gets a fraction of a penny from that trade, and then you do that millions upon millions of times, and you are just shaving off fractions of a cent into your account.

00:42:12.000 So there are people out there doing this.

00:42:13.000 I don't know.

00:42:14.000 I was told it's illegal.

00:42:14.000 I don't know anything about it.

00:42:16.000 But there are people who make millions of dollars and they do nothing.

00:42:18.000 Literally, they click go.

00:42:20.000 That's wild.

00:42:21.000 Yeah, I think that happens with stocks and stuff.

00:42:23.000 Arbitrage exists for like currency.

00:42:25.000 So like one currency will have the worth in one place and it's worth way less in the other place and you'll just take the money or worth way more.

00:42:31.000 So you take the money there and you go sell it over there and just get the exchange rate.

00:42:34.000 It's legal, so.

00:42:35.000 Well, I mean, like, in the real world, it makes sense to buy water in one place and bring it to another.

00:42:40.000 Like, we talked about this with a lot of disasters, when they, like, make price gouging illegal.

00:42:44.000 And I think price gouging is mostly fine.

00:42:49.000 I mean, imagine there's a disaster and there's no water.

00:42:53.000 So somebody buys a bunch of water and drives it into the disaster zone and sells it for, like, five bucks a bottle.

00:43:00.000 And people are buying it.

00:43:01.000 Well, I'm pretty sure those people don't want to die, and they're willing to spend the five bucks a bottle.

00:43:04.000 And that person who loaded up all that stuff did a lot of work, bought fuel, drove into a disaster zone, and brought relief water.

00:43:10.000 Why can't they sell it for what they want?

00:43:11.000 If people don't want to buy it, they don't have to buy it.

00:43:13.000 It becomes questionable if there's limited resources, and they got in early when everyone was going there to get the water for free to bring to the disaster site, but some one guy got in, like, just before and bought it all up.

00:43:24.000 You know, he's selling it at a 400% markup.

00:43:26.000 What do you mean?

00:43:28.000 How do you buy water for free?

00:43:30.000 Are you saying, like, if they took free relief water and then tried reselling it, that's a different story?

00:43:34.000 Well, if there was, like, water at a store, and then there was a disaster, and then one guy went to the store, bought all the water, and then, like, four hours later, a bunch of the disaster relief guys get to the store to get the water that they're gonna bring for free, but it's already bought up.

00:43:46.000 It's never gonna be for free.

00:43:47.000 Or cheap.

00:43:48.000 They're gonna deliver it at no cost.

00:43:49.000 Right, they'd buy it and then deliver it.

00:43:52.000 Yeah, but instead it had been bought up by one guy and he's gonna market up 500%.

00:43:56.000 That's, I think, you could argue that should be illegal.

00:43:59.000 Why should that be illegal?

00:44:00.000 Because it's a disaster and it should be treated like national emergency security, national defense.

00:44:05.000 So for a dude to try and profit off that I think is unethical at the very least and you could argue that should be illegal.

00:44:11.000 The question then becomes where, what other areas are you not allowed to buy a product when you expect high demand?

00:44:18.000 Maybe non-disaster relief.

00:44:19.000 I mean, if they're not disaster relief situations, that's a different story.

00:44:23.000 Martin Shkreli got smacked for his medicine.

00:44:26.000 Yeah, he raised like a diet.

00:44:27.000 What was it?

00:44:29.000 It was, uh, man, I want to say it was, it has something to do with, um, what's the word?

00:44:33.000 Diabetes.

00:44:33.000 I think it was insulin shots.

00:44:35.000 I'm not really sure.

00:44:35.000 Diabetes?

00:44:37.000 Not totally sure.

00:44:37.000 He, he like marked it up 700%.

00:44:39.000 I don't want to miss.

00:44:40.000 Yeah, it was like 700%.

00:44:41.000 I don't know where it was exactly.

00:44:42.000 I feel like the other challenge would be, you know, what if the federal government decides that your issue is not a disaster?

00:44:48.000 And so price gouging is like allowed there.

00:44:49.000 It becomes like, sort of unclear when and if we allow some protections and

00:44:54.000 not like I'd rather have a blanket rule either you're allowed to do it

00:44:56.000 Or you're not like you know I mean It's an interesting point

00:45:00.000 We made that someone goes to a store and buys all the water right before a disaster and then after the disaster sells

00:45:06.000 it because The question is how do you know how did he know the

00:45:08.000 disaster was coming? It's like congressman trading Like, how many times do they buy defense stocks and then there's an attack.

00:45:13.000 Yeah.

00:45:14.000 That's why I've been following this guy that trades exclusively off of, like, what Congress trades on.

00:45:18.000 It's doing pretty well.

00:45:19.000 I'm not gonna give you financial advice, by the way, not financial advice, but... Yeah, I think, I think, what was it, people were saying, like, the Pelosi tracker was, like, 20% or something?

00:45:24.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:45:25.000 It's crazy.

00:45:26.000 It probably came from... Free money.

00:45:27.000 Back in the day when, like, a disaster would hit, and then one guy would run to the store and get all the water, and then he'd come back and be like, hey everyone, I brought all the water, but it's gonna be five times more.

00:45:35.000 The crowd would be like, we're not gonna put up with that.

00:45:37.000 That was back before, like, when common sense kind of ruled the roost.

00:45:41.000 Before, like, he's like, I have a contract, and you're like, yeah.

00:45:43.000 Right, but there's still a problem here.

00:45:44.000 The problem is, in this scenario, how is it that he got to the store and bought the water with no one else realizing they needed water?

00:45:50.000 Or he just had the fastest car, who knows?

00:45:52.000 Well, or, okay, so potentially this guy just saw there is a disaster coming, there is starting to be water, whatever, I'm gonna do this, rather than prepare my own house, this is the thing I think is worth spending my time to do, and he ultimately made an investment, he decided that this was the thing he should do, buy the water, instead of maybe, like, leave the city, or, like, lock down his house, or whatever disaster he's in, I'm really not sure.

00:46:13.000 The problem with the argument there is that, let's say somebody has a well on their property, and they make water.

00:46:20.000 And then all of a sudden, demand for water is skyrocketing, everybody wants the water from his property, so he's like, okay, to maintain this and deliver this much water, I'm gonna charge more money.

00:46:28.000 And this is my opportunity.

00:46:29.000 This is why I invested in this.

00:46:31.000 And you say, nah, it's a disaster, people need water, you can't do that.

00:46:34.000 Okay, listen, now we'll go to food.

00:46:36.000 Well, now you've got a guy who grows lots of food, and then demand spikes as food shortages hit, and they say, no, you can't sell your food for a higher price because we're in a shortage, so we're going to buy your food at a government-locked rate.

00:46:50.000 And then, if you say that's acceptable, you get into all the other areas, well, people need clothes, people need shoes, people need fuel, and then you start price-locking everything.

00:46:58.000 I kind of... I understand what you're saying about someone going to a gas station or whatever and buying it, but the problem is still, if a disaster hits, no one has any advanced foreknowledge of the disaster, perhaps it's the problem of the gas station or the store deciding to sell all of their stock to one guy.

00:47:14.000 And, you know, and they say, we don't care, you can buy it all.

00:47:17.000 Yeah, you can also redefine what a disaster is, and that can be used against people.

00:47:21.000 Be like, hey, it's a disaster, you have to give your, I mean, food rationing, things like that.

00:47:26.000 Yeah, the government then says, well, you know, the economic downturn qualifies as a disaster, so we're taking your water.

00:47:32.000 We're taking all these products from your store and we're gonna give them out for free.

00:47:35.000 That's what worries me because when the government decides it's a disaster, these things, these rules would suddenly apply.

00:47:40.000 But again, it's not consistent.

00:47:41.000 There are sometimes communities that need help and the federal government will be like, no, you're not serious enough.

00:47:45.000 And other times they're like, no, we have to intervene here.

00:47:48.000 Wasn't this something we talked about with East Palestine?

00:47:51.000 Like the fact that the chemical spill was a big deal and the federal government kind of ignored it?

00:47:55.000 I'm not saying we should have gone to price gouging but it is interesting that we would ultimately be deciding this is something the federal government should elect to tell us and I don't like that.

00:48:03.000 There was some story where a guy filled up his pickup truck with a bunch of bottles of water, drove into a disaster area and sold them for like five bucks each and he got in trouble.

00:48:10.000 They were like, how dare you?

00:48:12.000 And my attitude is kind of like, would you rather have five dollar water or no water?

00:48:17.000 It was obvious, $5 water.

00:48:19.000 Otherwise, you'll just die!

00:48:21.000 You know, but they were like, yeah, but he's exploiting a crisis.

00:48:24.000 Okay, then just tell him not to bring the water next.

00:48:26.000 He'll say, okay, I won't bring you any water.

00:48:27.000 And then you all die of dehydration.

00:48:28.000 In New York, you'll see like umbrella salesmen and there'll be a buck and no one will ever buy them.

00:48:32.000 And then when it rains, they're like $9 each.

00:48:34.000 Boom.

00:48:34.000 That's right.

00:48:34.000 Hey, that's not fair.

00:48:36.000 How did they know it was going to rain?

00:48:37.000 That's exploitation, but this is true.

00:48:40.000 Guys will be standing outside their little carts or whatever.

00:48:42.000 And the umbrellas will be, well, yeah, there'll be like five bucks and there'll be in a little bin.

00:48:46.000 As soon as the rain comes, you see a different sign flopped down.

00:48:48.000 It's 15 bucks and they sell them like hotcakes.

00:48:50.000 Since they're non-essential, I understand.

00:48:52.000 I like that, actually.

00:48:53.000 I really like taking advantage of the situation.

00:48:56.000 You know what?

00:48:57.000 Fine.

00:48:57.000 I'm sick of Walmart jacking up the price of winter coats as soon as it gets cold out.

00:49:04.000 Have you noticed this?

00:49:05.000 If you're buying winter clothing in summer, it's cheap.

00:49:08.000 But now it's cold, and people are freezing to death, and they're trying to exploit us.

00:49:13.000 No, it's fine.

00:49:14.000 This is the point of supply and demand.

00:49:15.000 You charge more when the opportunity arises.

00:49:18.000 Yeah, price gouging and price limiting are both kind of federally... Well, you don't want the government to limit the prices a company can set because then the company goes out of business and that destroys the economy.

00:49:30.000 But then how do you stop companies from price gouging?

00:49:32.000 What's the rules and the laws on that?

00:49:34.000 I think... Caveat emptor.

00:49:37.000 It's caveat emptor.

00:49:37.000 It's buyer beware.

00:49:38.000 If you aren't the one who's willing to look into what you're buying and everything like that, it's your responsibility ultimately, you know?

00:49:44.000 Within reason, I think fraud.

00:49:46.000 We can say, okay, this person lied.

00:49:48.000 Tricking, yeah.

00:49:49.000 But if someone knows they're buying a bottle of water, and it's clean, fresh, pure water, and the guy says, my water.

00:49:54.000 If you want it, I want a hundred bucks.

00:49:56.000 And you say, but that's so unfair.

00:49:56.000 Yeah.

00:49:58.000 I'm dying of dehydration.

00:49:59.000 Well, it's my water.

00:49:59.000 I want it.

00:50:01.000 I'll give you a hundred bucks.

00:50:01.000 No, how dare you?

00:50:02.000 Well, let's jump to this story here.

00:50:04.000 This is the bigger news that we were going to get into initially, but that we pushed back.

00:50:08.000 Here we go.

00:50:09.000 From DC Drano.

00:50:10.000 He says, and there it is!

00:50:11.000 Senator Dick Durbin is finally revealing their grand plan.

00:50:14.000 Flood the country with illegal aliens, enlist them in the military, and make them citizens. 1.00

00:50:18.000 The part he isn't disclosing is who the Marxists will use the alien soldiers against.

00:50:25.000 Ah, yes, interesting.

00:50:25.000 The funny thing is that we've talked about this, and I've speculated this would be the case.

00:50:30.000 We have massive shortfalls in our military, and we have a massive illegal immigration population coming across the border.

00:50:36.000 I said, how long until they send all these guys to Ukraine? 0.99

00:50:40.000 No joke.

00:50:41.000 Now here's my question to all the Republicans who are upset about illegal immigration.

00:50:44.000 You got Texas saying we're gonna send them to Martha's Vineyard or whatever, or Florida and Texas.

00:50:49.000 Okay.

00:50:50.000 What if we send them all to Ukraine? 1.00

00:50:53.000 New rule, new law.

00:50:54.000 United States, if you enter this country illegally, we won't deport you. 1.00

00:50:58.000 We will send you to Ukraine. 0.99

00:51:01.000 I'm not saying make them fight.

00:51:03.000 I am not saying force them to join any kind of government action.

00:51:05.000 I am not saying we're involved in any war.

00:51:07.000 I am saying, quite literally, The deportation process is not a return to your home country.

00:51:13.000 All non-citizens who are here illegally and facing deportation sent to Ukraine. 0.87

00:51:19.000 Of course, then the Ukrainian government will take them, hand them a weapon, and say to the front lines with yee. 0.89

00:51:23.000 But you know, that's... But I'm fine if they're in the Ukrainian military.

00:51:26.000 I don't want them to join our military, right?

00:51:29.000 If you're in the middle of committing the crime of illegally entering my country, I don't think you're my country's best interest at heart.

00:51:34.000 I don't necessarily want you to be in my military and then be, you know, have access to the GI Bill or whatever else.

00:51:38.000 That doesn't make sense to me.

00:51:40.000 Let me play this clip.

00:51:40.000 You can hear it for yourselves.

00:51:42.000 What troubles me about the debate now about the southern border is that it is one half of the immigration equation.

00:51:49.000 Yes, we need order at the border.

00:51:51.000 Yes, we need to have changes in the laws that reflect the reality of the overwhelming numbers from all over the world who are coming to our shores and our border. 1.00

00:52:01.000 But there is also an incredible demand for legal immigration into this country even now.

00:52:08.000 Residing officer, my colleague from the state of Illinois, has legislation which addresses one aspect of that.

00:52:15.000 Her bill, and I hope I describe it accurately, says that if you are an undocumented person in this country- Undocumented person in this country.

00:52:24.000 You're an illegal immigrant. 0.99

00:52:25.000 Invader.

00:52:26.000 And you can pass the physical and the required test, background test, the like.

00:52:31.000 You can serve in our military, and if you do it honorably, we will make you citizens of the United States.

00:52:36.000 Do we need that?

00:52:38.000 No.

00:52:38.000 Do you know what the recruiting numbers are at the Army and the Navy and the Air Force?

00:52:44.000 They can't reach their quotas each month.

00:52:46.000 They can't find enough people to join our military forces.

00:52:51.000 And there are those who are undocumented who want the chance to serve and risk their lives for this country.

00:52:55.000 Treason.

00:52:56.000 Sedition.

00:52:56.000 Should we give them a chance?

00:52:58.000 No!

00:52:58.000 I think we should.

00:53:00.000 This is sedition. 0.98

00:53:00.000 You're incorrect, Dick. 0.98

00:53:02.000 They have created policies that are destroying the U.S.

00:53:05.000 armed forces, and now they are advocating to have non-citizens serve in our armed forces.

00:53:11.000 The armed forces will be replaced From citizens to non-citizens, and then when the order is given to fire an American citizen, they're gonna say, I don't care.

00:53:20.000 Yeah.

00:53:20.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:53:21.000 And he's saying, we're having trouble recruiting people.

00:53:24.000 So instead of trying to address that issue, we're just going to bring in people who are here illegally and give them a path to citizenship. 1.00

00:53:29.000 Right.

00:53:30.000 This doesn't make sense.

00:53:30.000 Let's fix, like, why we're having trouble.

00:53:32.000 Like, why did you fire all the unvaccinated? 1.00

00:53:34.000 Why are you pushing woke crap and DEI? 1.00

00:53:37.000 down these troops' throats. 1.00

00:53:39.000 They hate it.

00:53:39.000 They don't want it.

00:53:40.000 They're not willing to die for a country that, you know, hates them and hates their founding.

00:53:44.000 And I think what they're doing is, you know, they are trying to bring people here who have no allegiance to America's founding because when the time comes, they'll be willing to turn the guns on all of us, right? 0.97

00:53:53.000 Because they have no allegiance to us, no respect for our laws.

00:53:56.000 As you said, they're coming here illegally already. 0.98

00:53:58.000 It's crazy.

00:53:58.000 Yeah, and it seems like it, like, I don't understand how any humanitarian would be like, great idea, Dick Durbin, I love this because now you're holding citizenship over someone's head being say, go fight in a war, but potentially die to get citizenship.

00:54:10.000 The thing about being an American citizen and enlisting the military is that you already have that, right?

00:54:14.000 So you're of service to your own country.

00:54:16.000 It seems like a crazy prospect on both sides to say that anyone would benefit from this at all.

00:54:22.000 It seems like blackmail on one hand.

00:54:24.000 I know you're here illegally. 1.00

00:54:25.000 You have now registered with the government.

00:54:27.000 To be fair, the Biden administration doesn't deport anyone. 1.00

00:54:29.000 They're useless. 0.96

00:54:30.000 But theoretically, I know you're here illegally. 0.94

00:54:32.000 So continue to fight until I say you can stay here.

00:54:35.000 Or we could just maybe enforce border laws and then go back to our native population and say, why don't you want to enlist in the military?

00:54:42.000 What changed in our culture?

00:54:43.000 that drove military recruitment down what's going on in the military like you've alluded to all sorts of like woke ads the the vaccination regulations as well as just generally like what are the physical fitness standards what are the benefits what what are we doing that's not working rather than bring in a class of illegal people Why don't we just go to people who are already here, our citizens, and ask them what would make you want to be in the military?

00:55:05.000 Well, none of these people who come here illegally are still a burden on the taxpayer, right? 1.00

00:55:09.000 We're still paying for them to be here, paying for all of the benefits that they get as members of the military and will get when they leave the military.

00:55:16.000 So, you know, you're not in any way taking this problem away from the American taxpayer.

00:55:21.000 You might even be making it worse, one could argue.

00:55:23.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:55:24.000 We could give less benefits to foreigners that join the military, but give them citizenship as their benefit. 0.99

00:55:30.000 But isn't that like a form of discrimination?

00:55:32.000 Saying you're doing the same job, but you get fewer benefits?

00:55:34.000 That doesn't make any sense.

00:55:36.000 Also, shouldn't you want to fight for your own country?

00:55:39.000 I mean, shouldn't you be a citizen to enlist in the military?

00:55:42.000 How do we know where your loyalties are if you're not a citizen of the country you're serving?

00:55:46.000 I think these people, in particular, recent, you know, people that are crossing over the southern border have shown they have no interest in assimilating, right?

00:55:46.000 Absolutely.

00:55:53.000 They're waving their foreign flags.

00:55:55.000 They're not adhering to our values.

00:55:57.000 People used to come to the U.S. 0.99

00:55:58.000 and literally change their last name so they could pass as American.

00:56:00.000 That's how badly they wanted to assume our identity and adhere to our culture.

00:56:04.000 And these people aren't doing that at all.

00:56:06.000 They're shoving it in our faces. 1.00

00:56:07.000 So to think that they would want to fight under the banner of the American flag, you know, honestly and believe in it, I think that's just stupid. 0.99

00:56:16.000 I think about the Hessians, having foreign nationals fight for your country. It's not super 0.99

00:56:20.000 uncommon. The British hired the German Hessians to fight during the American Revolution and against

00:56:27.000 the colonists. But you see the Roman Empire started to hire and bring in foreigners to fight 0.60

00:56:32.000 a late-stage empire when they didn't want to fight anymore.

00:56:34.000 Like I said, if Ukraine wants to hire America's illegal immigrants to go fight for their war,

00:56:37.000 that's fine. But I don't think that as the country, the U.S.

00:56:40.000 should say, as a path to citizenship, we should encourage illegal immigration. 0.75

00:56:44.000 It's the same reason that you make with ending birthright citizenship, right?

00:56:47.000 If you say, if you have a child in this country, you get to stay, then people are like, what can I do to have a child in that country?

00:56:53.000 And if I were to say, if you enlist in our military, you get to stay, I'm undermining the actual problem, which is that people should not be illegally entering into our country and then being expected to find a way to assimilate and benefit, especially because they didn't respect the country in the first place to get there. 0.56

00:57:08.000 Yeah, and I'm just really tired of politicians trying to fix, you know, symptoms of the problem and not actually get to the root of it.

00:57:14.000 We have the capacity to totally stop the illegal immigration in our southern border. 0.92

00:57:18.000 We just don't have politicians who are willing to do that.

00:57:20.000 Alright, well how about this one from Florida's Voice.

00:57:23.000 This is not normal. DeSantis warns of invasion as group of Chinese nationals crosses the border. 1.00

00:57:28.000 So, how many of the people that they're going to put in our military or non-citizens are going to be, I don't know,

00:57:36.000 Iranian or...

00:57:38.000 You mean fighting-age men from other countries that don't have our best interests at heart? 1.00

00:57:42.000 And particularly those from China!

00:57:43.000 Or they get officer status, then they have access to sensitive data.

00:57:47.000 Yo, people, you want to talk about- this is a funny thing when I talk about, uh, civil war, and they're like, it'll never happen.

00:57:53.000 I love this one.

00:57:54.000 When I would ask people- I would ask people this 20 years ago.

00:57:57.000 If, uh, A US military man was ordered to fire on an American citizen, would they do it?

00:58:03.000 And the immediate reaction from everyone is, no they would not. 0.98

00:58:07.000 And I'm like, that's the stupidest thing ever, of course they would. 0.97

00:58:10.000 For the same reason why police shoot guys in their pickup trucks when they're on a high-speed chase. 0.99

00:58:16.000 The assumption with the question is that there's just like a random guy walking down the street.

00:58:22.000 There's always some kind of reason.

00:58:24.000 And if it comes down to like there's a mass protest and someone is ordered like by any means necessary to stop this guy, he's a fugitive, he's dangerous.

00:58:32.000 Do you think like, and I'm not trying to single out a military person, I'm saying anyone in law enforcement.

00:58:37.000 They're not going to operate under the assumption that the person they're going after is a sane, rational individual.

00:58:41.000 They're being told by their superiors, these are the actions you take.

00:58:45.000 This person is considered armed and dangerous.

00:58:47.000 Okay.

00:58:48.000 So you've got a National Guard out and they brief them and say there's going to be riots and there's going to be live ammo and fully automatic rifles.

00:58:55.000 Do not, you know, blah blah blah.

00:58:58.000 And then if something was happening and...

00:59:00.000 Someone was firebombing something and they said, that guy, stop him now, open fire.

00:59:03.000 Like, there's not a situation where they're gonna be like, well hold on there commanding officer, I understand there's something happening in front of me, but I'm gonna go ahead and not do that.

00:59:11.000 There are certain circumstances where, imagine it's a regular guy walking down the street carrying a newspaper, someone might be like, I don't know what's going on.

00:59:19.000 But even then, you have You have the issue of, the example I like to use is the Bosphorus Bridge coup attempt in Turkey.

00:59:27.000 These guys are being told something, right?

00:59:30.000 You're going out, you're working in security, they don't think, the commanding officer isn't saying, I'm a villain and I want to kill a random person, I order you to do it, because then they're going to say no.

00:59:39.000 There's typically some kind of reason.

00:59:41.000 But even outside of that, Look where we are now.

00:59:43.000 I've talked about civil war and they say, oh, the military is not going to fight the American people, blah, blah, blah.

00:59:49.000 This military will.

00:59:50.000 A bunch of Chinese and Honduran nationals who are in the U.S.

00:59:53.000 Army and the National Guard who are deployed to quell a riot from a bunch of American-born people in Staten Island. 0.58

01:00:00.000 You got the people in Staten Island protesting that they're busing in non-citizens and giving the tax money from the citizens to the non-citizens.

01:00:08.000 The citizens protest.

01:00:10.000 These guys show up in the National Guard, they're ordered open fire, they're not going to think twice.

01:00:14.000 Yeah, because they have no respect for our founding ideology.

01:00:17.000 Like, when you hear, you know, CIA or FBI or DOJ whistleblowers talk, what they always say is, you know, I felt that this went against our founding belief system.

01:00:25.000 It was against the Constitution.

01:00:27.000 I felt I couldn't, you know, do this raid on my fellow man who did no wrong.

01:00:31.000 These people don't have that kind of ideology or approach to anything at all.

01:00:34.000 They're already coming here.

01:00:35.000 They're breaking laws. 0.96

01:00:36.000 They're going to shoot the Staten Island protester, no doubt.

01:00:39.000 The assumption is an American citizen, you know, American as apple pie, is told to open fire on an American citizen who is also as American as apple pie and is like, whoa, whoa, I can't do that.

01:00:50.000 That's my neighbor and my brother and he's flying the American flag.

01:00:52.000 Dude, you will get some proud boy type dude with an American flag or Trump supporter waving a flag and screaming in protest.

01:01:00.000 And there will be a guy from Honduras or from Ecuador or even from Africa because we've had illegal immigrants. 0.91

01:01:09.000 They fly from Africa into Brazil and then travel all of the southern border.

01:01:12.000 They're going to be given positions in not just the military.

01:01:15.000 Take a look at this one from WTTW.

01:01:17.000 New Illinois law that allows certain non-citizens to join law enforcement.

01:01:20.000 It becomes a flashpoint.

01:01:22.000 That's right.

01:01:22.000 There's going to be a cop who shows up and he's going to say, I don't know you.

01:01:27.000 I don't care about you.

01:01:28.000 My life was bad.

01:01:30.000 I have been given an opportunity.

01:01:31.000 Anything they tell me to do, I will do.

01:01:33.000 And you had that story where there was a Somali migrant who killed that woman in her car for no reason.

01:01:37.000 You remember that one?

01:01:38.000 It was Minnesota or whatever. 0.98

01:01:40.000 He just kills this woman. 0.99

01:01:40.000 For no reason. 0.99

01:01:41.000 I'm like, it was like a park.

01:01:42.000 What was it?

01:01:42.000 What was it like a speeding ticket or something?

01:01:43.000 I can't remember the story.

01:01:45.000 This woman did like nothing, like her headlights out. 0.99

01:01:47.000 And he's like, okay. 1.00

01:01:48.000 And he shoots her and kills her. 0.99

01:01:50.000 What do you think's going to happen when you have non-citizens in your military? 0.98

01:01:53.000 To inmates running the asylum.

01:01:55.000 Yeah, I think it's more like the Legion of Doom.

01:01:58.000 To this business plot, I mean, this is just insane business plot.

01:02:02.000 You gotta just educate yourself on the business plot.

01:02:05.000 Smedley Butler, American retired general, World War I general, they wanted him to lead a fascist overthrow, and he said no.

01:02:11.000 If he had said yes...

01:02:13.000 We'd be living under a tyrant right now.

01:02:15.000 We probably would have joined the Nazis. 0.92

01:02:16.000 I just gotta stop you.

01:02:18.000 I don't believe any of that.

01:02:20.000 We're under tyranny.

01:02:21.000 We are dealing with them putting non-citizens in law enforcement. 1.00

01:02:26.000 They're giving non-citizens the right to vote. 0.99

01:02:28.000 The Biden administration actually had Border Patrol cut the barrier and shut the barriers down.

01:02:35.000 So this idea that there was some coup a hundred years ago is meaningless when right now we are living under tyrants.

01:02:40.000 Yeah, that was the attempt at legitimizing their coup was that business plot.

01:02:44.000 But if Smedley Butler didn't have American ideals is the point I'm bringing it up.

01:02:47.000 If he had been a foreign national, then it rose to the rank of general because of service, and then they'd ask him to go become the dictator. 0.63

01:02:54.000 If he's from Somalia, I'm not saying Somalia is a bad place, but somewhere where dictatorships were norm. 1.00

01:02:58.000 You could see that.

01:03:00.000 And for all you know, this guy, the actual plot was, we want you to go to Congress and claim there's a plot to legitimize the removal of the gold standard and strengthen the Federal Reserve.

01:03:11.000 And he smirked and said, yes.

01:03:14.000 These ideas that we just believe these narratives and trust all of it is meaningless to me.

01:03:18.000 Smedley Butler was like the most decorated general on earth at the time.

01:03:20.000 So what?

01:03:21.000 It's a hundred years ago and it's irrelevant to the point that right now, regardless of what happened, we're looking at Dick Durbin out of Illinois saying, non-citizens in the military, and we're looking at Illinois Same place!

01:03:32.000 So they're saying non-citizen law enforcement.

01:03:34.000 If Smedley Butler had been a non-citizen in that situation and they go to a non-citizen, they're like, hey, overthrow.

01:03:38.000 A non-citizen is way more likely.

01:03:41.000 I think the thing is America isn't just, oh, we live here and so therefore we are American.

01:03:44.000 American is a cultural and philosophical belief.

01:03:47.000 There is more behind it than just, oh, I happen to have residence or happen to have stumbled into this area and live there, right?

01:03:54.000 And that's why it works, why there is common value.

01:03:56.000 It's why you could have multiple states that also share commonality.

01:03:59.000 We don't work like separate countries entirely.

01:04:02.000 What I find to be challenging is that Dick Durbin is saying, well, we have these people here and so we should just let them be citizens if they trade in some way.

01:04:11.000 It's undermining what really we need to address, which is our cultural issues, which is why people don't want to enlist in the military.

01:04:19.000 Just saying we should replace the populations that's here because they aren't doing the job that we want is not the answer. 0.95

01:04:25.000 It just will ultimately create some long-term problems.

01:04:27.000 And I will clarify, too, for the super-chatter, Dante Scarlett saying it's illegal immigrants we're concerned about. 0.59

01:04:33.000 It's not as much non-citizens, but it is still, in my opinion, partly non-citizens.

01:04:37.000 It is true that there are people who are not citizens who join the military, and we have had programs where you're not a citizen, join the military, you can become a citizen.

01:04:45.000 The difference between illegal immigrant and that is very clear.

01:04:50.000 However, regardless, I would not be very happy with a mass mobilization of non-citizens in any capacity, be it illegal immigrant or permanent resident. 0.62

01:04:59.000 And the thing is, Dick Durbin says we need more legal immigration, too, which I just fundamentally disagree with because it's the same argument, right?

01:05:07.000 People here aren't doing the thing we want, so let's bring in someone else rather than go to our native population and say, how can we get you into these roles that we need filled? 0.99

01:05:15.000 What can we do to rally as a country and solve our own problems?

01:05:19.000 I think this is what's upsetting about the immigration debate, which is that there are a lot, I mean, both of my parents are immigrants.

01:05:24.000 They came to America. 0.98

01:05:25.000 They chose to be here.

01:05:27.000 That was good, right?

01:05:28.000 I was raised as an American.

01:05:29.000 I have cultural ties elsewhere, but this is not the same thing when you come illegally.

01:05:34.000 When you come illegally because you see some social benefit, but you don't actually want to be a part of the country, it's very different.

01:05:40.000 The first thing you could do would be to show respect to the country and abide by their laws, including their immigration laws, which are frustrating and I understand that, but illegal immigrants are not going through the same process that legal immigrants are going through.

01:05:50.000 I want to jump to this story from scnr.com.

01:05:53.000 Who's that?

01:05:55.000 Bill Maher reveals to Roseanne Barr he's never heard of MKUltra or the World Economic Forum.

01:06:02.000 This is such an amazing example.

01:06:05.000 An amazing example of the ignorance that persists among liberals.

01:06:09.000 And let me play for you this video.

01:06:10.000 Roseanne educating Bill Maher in a hilarious way.

01:06:13.000 No wonder I don't remember this. 0.99

01:06:15.000 No shit, you blocked it out MKUltra. 0.99

01:06:20.000 Who's that? 1.00

01:06:22.000 That's the mind control program you're under, Bill.

01:06:25.000 MKUltra?

01:06:26.000 Yeah.

01:06:28.000 Who's Klaus Schwab?

01:06:29.000 The head of the WEF.

01:06:32.000 What's that?

01:06:35.000 Google it.

01:06:38.000 Yo, this is why, I'm going to be completely honest, Bill Maher won't come on this show.

01:06:44.000 And I think there's a reason why liberals and leftists avoid this show because, look, Roseanne, I mean, she knows what MKUltra is.

01:06:55.000 She knows what the World Economic Forum is.

01:06:58.000 In this video, she didn't even say much about it, but Bill Maher has no idea.

01:07:03.000 These people, they live on the tip of the iceberg, up top, above the surface level, and we're all scuba diving.

01:07:09.000 So we see all the dirt, the grime, and the horrors of the deep state.

01:07:14.000 And people like Bill Maher standing up top, looking around, like, it's just water! 0.98

01:07:17.000 Y'all are crazy and nothing but water! 0.95

01:07:18.000 And we're like, you know, down there, there's skulls and other really awful, disgusting things. 0.99

01:07:23.000 Roseanne gets to hang out with Bill Maher, but this is it.

01:07:26.000 This is a good example of where liberals are at.

01:07:28.000 They have no idea what's going on.

01:07:29.000 They don't pay attention.

01:07:29.000 They don't care.

01:07:31.000 Yeah, I think that's true.

01:07:33.000 I think what I like right now is like Roseanne Barr is one of these celebrities that's sort of toying the line between several things. 0.92

01:07:40.000 It was like Theovon had Tucker Carlson on his show and I love it because he's just a comedian, he's making observation, he has mass appeal.

01:07:46.000 On the other hand, Tucker is completely political and everything is and they have this interesting conversation.

01:07:51.000 Roseanne Barr confronting Bill over here, who's like, hearing the words MKUltra and glitching, he has no idea what's going on, is extremely funny for, I don't know, an endless number of reasons, but also because it's sort of showing that more moderate people are aware of these things.

01:08:06.000 And I think that is not what liberal entertainment expected.

01:08:10.000 I'm having a hard time believing you didn't know what MKUltra was. 0.51

01:08:13.000 Is Bill a master troll? 0.95

01:08:16.000 Is he great at feigning ignorance? 0.99

01:08:18.000 No.

01:08:19.000 The famous clip, of course, is when Dennis Prager was on and mentioned tampons in the men's room.

01:08:24.000 And Bill was like, no, that's for their girlfriends!

01:08:26.000 Come on! 1.00

01:08:28.000 And Dennis was desperately, desperately trying to inform these liberals of actual things that were happening and they all just laughed like a bunch of cackling morons. 0.97

01:08:37.000 I wonder if Bill adopted cynicism because his show got shut down after 9-11 because he spoke out so harshly against it, against like the response to war. 0.97

01:08:46.000 I don't know exactly what he said.

01:08:47.000 He said something about not hating the terrorists, like thinking everybody's, you know.

01:08:53.000 Yeah.

01:08:53.000 And now he's like, oh, if I speak out of line again, they're going to cancel me again.

01:08:56.000 So I've got to always be like, oh, really?

01:08:58.000 I didn't know.

01:08:59.000 Ignorance is a good defense.

01:09:00.000 This is his show.

01:09:01.000 This is his podcast.

01:09:02.000 Do you think afterwards he fell down the craziest Google rabbit hole of looking all of this stuff up?

01:09:07.000 He hasn't left his office for three days.

01:09:09.000 He's totally calling Roseanne Barbee like, thank you for telling me about this.

01:09:12.000 Or do you think he just ignored it?

01:09:13.000 I doubt he Googled it.

01:09:14.000 He ignored it completely.

01:09:15.000 I don't think they want to know.

01:09:16.000 They just write us off as conspiracy theorists and they never look into it.

01:09:19.000 It's interesting.

01:09:21.000 But also, wouldn't you wonder, like, this is what I find interesting, if you're curious about things, you would look it up.

01:09:27.000 But is it actually just trying to put your head in the sand and pretend none of this is happening?

01:09:32.000 Well, just as an aside, for whatever reason, a few minutes ago a house exploded in Arlington and there's video of it.

01:09:38.000 So I don't think- Anyone's house specifically?

01:09:40.000 No, it was a house exploded in Arlington.

01:09:43.000 So it's like big breaking news, the police were issuing a search warrant, and this house exploded.

01:09:50.000 But, uh, you know, people are chatting it, but we don't have any details on why.

01:09:55.000 So, don't know what else to tell you about that, but anyway, back to the point.

01:09:59.000 That can happen from, like, gas leaks, right?

01:10:00.000 No, this was a search warrant being served to a house that was barricaded, the house then exploded.

01:10:05.000 Yeah.

01:10:06.000 So anyway, Bill Maher, Bill Maher, she called him MKUltra.

01:10:14.000 Basically, Bill Maher is the propaganda grift machine for the above-surface-level narrative machine.

01:10:20.000 He is the mockingbird?

01:10:22.000 Yeah.

01:10:22.000 He's a mockingbird.

01:10:23.000 But then he laughed, and then was like, what is that?

01:10:27.000 It's so weird.

01:10:27.000 Is he even participating in this conversation?

01:10:29.000 Yeah, they talk about the Bank for International Settlements, and he's like, what's that?

01:10:32.000 And she's like, it's the Swiss bank.

01:10:34.000 It's the mother bank of all central banks, the central bank of central banks.

01:10:38.000 And he's like, yeah, but they're not running the show, the Swiss banks.

01:10:42.000 I think it's funny that, like, you know, Ian's bringing up Smedley Butler in the business plot, and I'm like, I don't think that has relevant to- we're actually dis- like, if it was Bill Maher, he'd be like, huh?

01:10:54.000 Imagine wanting to start a podcast and being like, I've done no research, I know nothing of politics, but I'm here to debate you.

01:11:02.000 Okay.

01:11:03.000 People listen to that?

01:11:05.000 How many subscribers does he have on his show?

01:11:07.000 What is it called?

01:11:08.000 What's his show called?

01:11:09.000 Um, that one is... Ultracast?

01:11:11.000 Isn't it like the Bill Maher show?

01:11:13.000 No.

01:11:14.000 I don't even know the name of it.

01:11:17.000 Critically Uncorrect?

01:11:18.000 No, I don't know what the hell he calls it.

01:11:20.000 After Dark?

01:11:21.000 I don't know.

01:11:21.000 That's Dr. Drew's show.

01:11:23.000 Club Random.

01:11:24.000 There it is, Club Random.

01:11:25.000 All right, well, let's take a look here at the Club Random podcast.

01:11:32.000 He's got half a million subscribers and 840 videos.

01:11:36.000 There it is.

01:11:37.000 And let's take a look at his videos.

01:11:39.000 He's got one with Jordan Peterson, 4.1 million.

01:11:42.000 That's more for Jordan Peterson.

01:11:44.000 RFK.

01:11:44.000 I mean, that's the reality of this.

01:11:47.000 It's, it's, his videos are mostly about the guests.

01:11:50.000 Him sitting down with Kid Rock, probably interesting because what's happening is... You know, actually, I take it back.

01:11:55.000 It's an excellent show.

01:11:57.000 It's an excellent show. 0.99

01:11:58.000 It is... Dumb guy who doesn't read is educated by everyone else. 0.99

01:12:02.000 Basically. 1.00

01:12:03.000 Kinda like Rogan.

01:12:03.000 It does kind of work, but no, but Rogan has a good idea a lot about what he's talking about.

01:12:08.000 He calls himself dumb. 0.98

01:12:09.000 Just so. 0.99

01:12:09.000 But he's deeply curious. 0.99

01:12:11.000 Like Rogan asks a lot of really interesting questions because his mind is going, whereas

01:12:15.000 Bill Maher is sort of like, ha ha, I think I'm supposed to laugh here.

01:12:18.000 I haven't watched the show really, so I shouldn't be that critical.

01:12:19.000 But it is, there's sort of a difference.

01:12:22.000 I think if you were to sit down with someone and say, I know absolutely nothing about this, please tell me as much as you can in the next hour, that could be an interesting format.

01:12:30.000 I think because he's sort of a built personality, it comes across differently.

01:12:33.000 You sort of expect him to know more.

01:12:35.000 I guess that's actually, you know, I'm probably biased.

01:12:39.000 I mean, I don't think I know everything.

01:12:41.000 There's a lot I don't, and we bring people on, and culture war especially is that. 0.99

01:12:46.000 But Bill Maher is remarkably ignorant. 0.95

01:12:49.000 I mean, if you're going to invite someone on your show to discuss the merits of some political cause, and then with, like in Dennis Prager's case, laugh at him. 0.99

01:12:56.000 It's like, no, no, no, listen, listen.

01:12:57.000 Dennis Prager comes on your show and says they're putting tampons in the men's room.

01:13:02.000 The response, I think, which would be reasonable is, really?

01:13:06.000 They're really doing that?

01:13:06.000 I haven't seen that.

01:13:08.000 Let me look that up. 0.99

01:13:09.000 Yeah, ignorance- Bill Maher's like, no, you're crazy, and now we're all gonna laugh at you. 1.00

01:13:13.000 Ignorance is acceptable, and if you have a smart mind and you can learn, it's actually invigorating to watch someone that's ignorant learn the information and no longer be ignorant. 1.00

01:13:20.000 But ignorance muddled with cynicism is just disgusting. 0.99

01:13:24.000 We've invited Bill on this show. 0.95

01:13:26.000 And I can recognize why he can't do it.

01:13:28.000 He does his own show, and he lives outside of the country.

01:13:31.000 He came out to D.C.

01:13:32.000 for a stand-up, so we again invited him on the show, and the response was, he's not sticking around in D.C., but, you know, have a nice day.

01:13:39.000 I said, okay, no problem, I get it.

01:13:41.000 So then, we said, what if we go to L.A., or wherever, you know, we go to California, and we will set up for the week and have Bill on either in the morning or at night, his choice, and they said, we're not interested at this time.

01:13:54.000 Bill Maher, I think, would end up just sitting there being like, what's that?

01:13:57.000 What's that?

01:13:59.000 I don't know what that means.

01:14:00.000 Then Bill would make some argument and I'd say, actually, here, let me Google it for you, show him an article, and he'll go, oh, I didn't know that.

01:14:05.000 The whole show would be him saying, I didn't know that.

01:14:08.000 Imagine going to Bill Maher and talking about all the things the Bidens have done.

01:14:11.000 He'd be like, really?

01:14:12.000 No, they didn't.

01:14:13.000 I mean, if Bill Maher actually listened to anyone in this room or...

01:14:18.000 You know what?

01:14:19.000 You know what would be really great?

01:14:20.000 Anyone in the audience right now, I could take a random person and sit them down with

01:14:25.000 Bill Maher and they probably know more than Bill Maher does.

01:14:27.000 Kingsley, you have to call Bill Maher and help him out.

01:14:29.000 He needs your support.

01:14:30.000 Well, I have to tell you, his viewership is even worse.

01:14:33.000 So I went to be in the audience of his show when Steve Bannon was on and was just chit-chatting with some of the folks who are, you know, huge Bill Maher fans.

01:14:40.000 I mean, these are the most, like, dysgenic, uninformed people you will ever see in your entire life. 1.00

01:14:45.000 So what do they do?

01:14:46.000 Like, where are these people?

01:14:47.000 Are they, like, working in offices?

01:14:49.000 How do they support themselves?

01:14:50.000 How are they not aware of some of this stuff?

01:14:52.000 You're not going to know everything about everything, but to be that level of uninformed seems almost impossible to me.

01:14:58.000 All right, I nominate Marshall Mushi in chat to debate Bill Maher, because I'm confident that, additionally, Hypebeast Deleuze would also be able to run circles around Bill Maher.

01:15:14.000 I think Bill's, he's just a comedian and his fans are like comedy fans.

01:15:18.000 They're not like politically initiated.

01:15:20.000 No.

01:15:21.000 It's a very small percentage of the world that understands anything about politics.

01:15:24.000 You're half right.

01:15:25.000 Like one percent.

01:15:26.000 Bill Maher is a political commentator.

01:15:29.000 His show, he has a new rules section where he literally talks of culture and politics.

01:15:34.000 He brings on journalists and writers.

01:15:37.000 And they talk about politics and culture.

01:15:40.000 And you know, this is why we had... Bannon came on once and told me that I needed to go on his show.

01:15:47.000 And he was like, let me reach out to them.

01:15:49.000 I was like, I don't want to go on that guy's show.

01:15:53.000 I'll go on someone else's show and I'll be respectful to them, but especially with the panel. 0.89

01:15:57.000 They're all going to be talking garbage and just word diarrhea coming out on the desk. 0.62

01:16:01.000 And it's going to be like, I saw what happened to Dennis Prager. 0.92

01:16:04.000 He was the smartest guy in the room.

01:16:06.000 He ran circles around him and they all laughed at him.

01:16:09.000 Bro, if I wanted to go into a room and say things, make people laugh, I can easily just go do like a balloon animal routine at a fairground and get a bunch of people to clap and cheer for balloon animals, if that's what you're looking for.

01:16:21.000 If you wanna have a serious conversation, it ain't gonna be with people like Bill Maher. 0.99

01:16:25.000 Yeah, I wonder going into a venue where people don't understand what you're talking about and telling the truth and then looking like an idiot like it's exhausting. 0.99

01:16:34.000 It can be very exhausting. 0.92

01:16:35.000 So I understand not wanting to go into that that room of the raucous crowd and try and And he has home field advantage when you're in your own show, right?

01:16:44.000 I mean, everyone who does the show is going to say, thank you.

01:16:46.000 And for the most part, I assume.

01:16:48.000 And his producers are going to be like, you did a great job.

01:16:50.000 Good question.

01:16:51.000 And then if the host does like a side eye, then the whole audience is going to do a side eye because they're all cult worshipers.

01:16:56.000 And then it's like, oh, God, I got to deal with the cult now.

01:16:59.000 I do want to get a couple of these cultural segments in, because we have big news, ladies and gentlemen.

01:17:05.000 The new Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer has dropped, and fans are concerned it will be woke.

01:17:13.000 So, uh, for context, we will... Oh, actually, I don't even know if I can... Can I play this?

01:17:18.000 Official, uh... Like, I'm not concerned about the copyright stuff.

01:17:22.000 I'm concerned about there's, like, graphic stuff in here.

01:17:24.000 But we'll play just a little bit for you guys of the GTA 6 trailer, and then we'll talk about the game getting woke.

01:17:31.000 Alright, here we go.

01:17:32.000 Let's see.

01:17:37.000 Lucia, do you know why you're here?

01:17:39.000 Bad luck, I guess.

01:17:42.000 Alright, I'm just gonna say it right away.

01:17:44.000 The game literally starts off with two women of color in prison. 0.96

01:17:49.000 Do you know why you're here?

01:17:50.000 Bad luck, I guess.

01:17:51.000 That's basically it.

01:18:03.000 Then it just shows you a bunch of shots.

01:18:04.000 But there's concerns about the game being woke.

01:18:07.000 We have this from Sportskeeda that asks the question.

01:18:10.000 GTA 6 reveal is just around the corner.

01:18:12.000 It came out just today.

01:18:14.000 Scheduled for December 5th.

01:18:16.000 Well, the trailer came out today.

01:18:18.000 As one of the most anticipated games in history, Paris to release its first trailer, fans have many questions about how it will turn out.

01:18:23.000 A major question is whether or not the upcoming game will be woke.

01:18:26.000 Which refers to a heavy focus on political correctness and social justice commentary.

01:18:30.000 I'm gonna go ahead and pause and say, yes it will be.

01:18:34.000 Yeah, the fact that we're even raising that question, I feel like anything they- anytime they remake something, they just are like, and you know what this needs?

01:18:41.000 Some genderqueerity and just some more LGBT- like, is this what anyone who plays this game wants? 0.98

01:18:47.000 People have already commented when they found out that the main character is going to be a single mom.

01:18:53.000 They were like, oh boy.

01:18:54.000 Well, they've needed more representation in video games.

01:18:56.000 They've just been crying out for it for years.

01:18:58.000 What I don't understand is why these companies do this, because they know that's not their target audience, that's not what their viewership or usership wants, and they're going to face boycotts, but they continue to do it over and over again anyway.

01:19:10.000 What's the incentive?

01:19:11.000 I've never quite understood.

01:19:13.000 Just purely from a financial point of view, you would think, huh, my users hate when I do this, and they don't buy my game.

01:19:19.000 I'm going to stop doing this.

01:19:20.000 Maybe they think the game is so good, the franchise is so good, it's gonna sell no matter what, and they want to indoctrinate and give another perspective on life.

01:19:29.000 Like, have you ever thought, hey 15 year old boy, have you ever thought what it was like to be a ex-convict, single mother?

01:19:36.000 Well, you should.

01:19:38.000 Maybe that's good.

01:19:39.000 I don't know if that's the angle.

01:19:41.000 I think it's more like two things happen.

01:19:44.000 Rockstar hires a 24-year-old 10 years ago, and they're working in the mailroom or something.

01:19:52.000 10 years later, they're in marketing, and they're in their mid-30s.

01:19:56.000 And they say, okay, so we're going to finally be put... It's been how long?

01:20:00.000 Longer than 10 years, right?

01:20:01.000 Since GTA 5 came out?

01:20:03.000 And they're like, we're going to be launching Grand Theft Auto 6, finally.

01:20:07.000 The game is done.

01:20:09.000 I'm sorry, actually, we should go back in time a few years.

01:20:11.000 They said, we're conceptualizing this game.

01:20:13.000 What should we do?

01:20:15.000 And this person said, well, if you want to get people our age, you've got to make it, you know, social justice.

01:20:21.000 And the character should be a woman. 1.00

01:20:22.000 It should be a woman of color. 1.00

01:20:25.000 It should be all centered around marginalized peoples.

01:20:28.000 And they were like, really?

01:20:30.000 Marketing guy comes in and says, look, GTA 5 sold 70% of games to men.

01:20:37.000 We got teenagers.

01:20:38.000 We got gifts for kids, but it's almost entirely young males.

01:20:42.000 How do we double our market?

01:20:44.000 I'll tell you this.

01:20:45.000 Take a look at makeup.

01:20:46.000 The smartest thing the makeup industry did was pay tons of money to dudes who put on makeup. 1.00

01:20:52.000 Because they're like, listen, women wear makeup, it's a guarantee. 1.00

01:20:55.000 But that means sales are 90% to women. 0.98

01:20:59.000 We could double our market overnight if we convince dudes to wear makeup.

01:21:04.000 So the big makeup companies specifically are like, find me prominent personality men who wear makeup and we're gonna give them a lot of money.

01:21:12.000 All of a sudden now you have people making makeup channels and they're dudes.

01:21:15.000 And they backed drag becoming trendy because not only are drag queens men who put on makeup, but they wear a lot of makeup. 0.99

01:21:20.000 So you're buying a ton of products then.

01:21:22.000 Yep.

01:21:22.000 That's it.

01:21:23.000 Capitalism.

01:21:23.000 I feel like women are oftentimes more left-leaning, obviously, but also more permissive of inclusivity.

01:21:30.000 So I think, you know, you saw with Bud Light such backlash because it was a male-dominated market.

01:21:35.000 So I'm curious to see, you know, in these male-dominated industries, if they continue to kind of push back against this stuff more so than women did.

01:21:45.000 I feel like, and it's not my area of expertise, but with video games and comic books and things that I think of as more traditionally masculine spaces, even when there's a little bit of backlash, it's not enough to change the company's mind.

01:21:55.000 The company just does it anyways.

01:21:57.000 It's like it doesn't respect the people that are at its core.

01:21:59.000 It knows ultimately they'll play the game because they want to see it.

01:22:02.000 What's a female space? 1.00

01:22:05.000 Like if male spaces are, you know, like football and video games and sports and stuff like that, what's a female space? 1.00

01:22:12.000 Like movies you could say can go either way, it just depends on the movie.

01:22:16.000 Salon, spa type?

01:22:17.000 Yeah, I was gonna say salon, like beauty industry.

01:22:19.000 Women are much more socially based and so, you know... 1.00

01:22:22.000 I would think, like traditionally for a long time it was like volunteer organizations were predominantly led by women.

01:22:27.000 That's a little bit, that's not as true now because we don't really partake in cultural community events.

01:22:33.000 I think in some ways like online it would be like the lifestyle vlogger, the mommy vlogger, the fashion content.

01:22:41.000 Things that are more about that you're seeing a crossover of like women Like I see a lot of push for like women's DIY projects women using power tools because it's them fixing up their house But that's ultimately them being in a domestic traditionally female space. 1.00

01:22:53.000 Mm-hmm I don't know if that helps you with your question, but that's where I see women. 1.00

01:22:57.000 I don't know if you see women out and about.

01:22:59.000 People are saying the Saints Row reboot was bad.

01:23:02.000 Cyberpunk was bad.

01:23:03.000 I don't know.

01:23:05.000 You know, maybe.

01:23:06.000 I mean, there's an element of politics in a lot of these games, but I wonder why they just don't make it so you can, you know, I don't know, design your own character.

01:23:15.000 Like with Baldur's Gate, we talked about that, Baldur's Gate 3 comes out, and you can literally make your character some kind of freakish abomination.

01:23:21.000 You can make it like an orcish woman with a beard and just go wild with it. 0.99

01:23:28.000 Yeah. 0.60

01:23:28.000 You know, make some kind of monster. 0.60

01:23:29.000 That's effectively true in the Sims 2 games, I know there's like a hundred of them now, which I think of as being very popular among women, but they're not as fantasy oriented, they're not as sort of sci-fi.

01:23:39.000 Also, they don't tend to go on quests, they just sort of live at home and have relationships and then you decorate their house.

01:23:44.000 It's essentially a virtual dollhouse.

01:23:45.000 I think that, I think what they're thinking with GTA is that... So, the big issue people are pointing out is the main character's female.

01:23:53.000 It's never been done before.

01:23:55.000 And I'm not, you know, I agree with some of the counter-critique.

01:23:58.000 It's just because they make a character that's female that you play does not inherently make the game woke or whatever.

01:24:02.000 They might be thinking like, well, we've done nothing but dudes.

01:24:05.000 I mean, maybe we make a female character. 1.00

01:24:07.000 But I'm just...

01:24:08.000 I, you know, if, you guys have played GTA, right?

01:24:12.000 Yep.

01:24:12.000 You've never played GTA?

01:24:13.000 No, I've never played GTA.

01:24:14.000 You guys, look at this!

01:24:15.000 See, we're not the target audience.

01:24:17.000 No, we're not.

01:24:17.000 Why would I want to pick up a game where I'm going to run around opening fire onto random cars, mercilessly beat people in the street, steal things, and there's a whole lot of other really awful things you can do in the game, but do it as a woman.

01:24:33.000 It's like, okay, in every game, you're a guy, and you can run around and just beat random people, and shoot them, and just do all this crazy shenanigans.

01:24:43.000 But now it's like you're a woman doing it, okay? 1.00

01:24:45.000 So here's the game.

01:24:46.000 You're a woman, you run around Miami, you run up to a random guy and swing at him, and then he punches you one time and you're dead and you wake up in the hospital.

01:24:52.000 So, okay, with GTA, are you like, trying to accomplish something?

01:24:57.000 So there's a storyline, and then there's missions, and then GTA V is heavily online.

01:25:02.000 Yeah, I feel like the way you're describing it, you would want the strongest character, right?

01:25:07.000 And it's like this push that we're seeing, you know, with women in combat roles or as police officers.

01:25:12.000 So there's videos that go viral.

01:25:13.000 I think there was one this week of, you know, four or so police officers unable to subdue one male.

01:25:18.000 So I would think that you would want the man to be your character if you're playing this game.

01:25:23.000 Unless their storyline is like she's gonna go beat up her ex-boyfriend, who's the reason she's in prison anyways. 1.00

01:25:27.000 No, no, look, look, look.

01:25:28.000 I have played every GTA since the first one on PC, which was a top-down view, and you can barely see your little guy, and you're running around, it's funny.

01:25:37.000 Then GTA 3 comes out, and it's 3D, and we're all excited.

01:25:39.000 I have never played the missions.

01:25:42.000 Never.

01:25:42.000 The moment I get GTA, I turn it on, and I immediately just walk around, steal a car, crash into buildings, launch in the air, explore the map, and just go totally hog wild.

01:25:53.000 So, I propose someone mod the game, assuming it comes out for PC, I think it is, and they make it, they can call it Realistic Edition, and you can play as the same woman, and when you run up to a guy and swing at him, it doesn't hurt him, and then he hits you once, you go down, and when you go down, it goes, WASTED.

01:26:09.000 And then, when you wake up, you're walking out of the hospital, and if you get arrested, you're walking out of the police station.

01:26:14.000 Same thing.

01:26:15.000 The woman swings at a guy, hits him, nothing happens, he punches one time, and then, you go down. 0.89

01:26:21.000 That'll be the game.

01:26:23.000 It'd be more interesting.

01:26:24.000 It would be much more realistic.

01:26:26.000 Yeah.

01:26:26.000 Because then you'd have to figure out how to live in this weird, brutal society that you're in as a woman and if you're a male player.

01:26:33.000 Well, don't commit crimes.

01:26:34.000 But the thing, like, if you're a male player, you're maybe used to having these strong guys who beat people up, you know, go to hospitals often.

01:26:40.000 And if you had to play as a female character, like, maybe it makes it more challenging because you're not as Good at fighting or whatever. 1.00

01:26:45.000 It would change the purpose of the game.

01:26:47.000 Like, maybe you would spend more time scaling buildings and doing something else.

01:26:51.000 And then that's one of the reasons that I think video games that are targeted towards men and women are slightly different.

01:26:56.000 They are drawn towards different activities.

01:26:58.000 Their brains are rewarded by different behaviors.

01:27:01.000 So, it doesn't sound interesting to me to walk around and beat up, you know, ladies of the night in GTA, but... Oh, it's crazier than that.

01:27:07.000 I mean, it's nuts.

01:27:08.000 But, sir, do you remember San Andreas?

01:27:11.000 Uh, yes I do.

01:27:12.000 That was the one where your guy could get fat, right?

01:27:14.000 Yeah.

01:27:15.000 I hope they do that.

01:27:16.000 At the fast food place?

01:27:17.000 Yeah, that's right.

01:27:18.000 In GTA San Andreas, you could go to the gym and start working out and your guy would get ripped, or you'd go to the fast food place and just keep eating burgers and he would get fatter and fatter.

01:27:27.000 This is a good life lesson!

01:27:29.000 These are great video games.

01:27:30.000 Okay, but I gotta tell you.

01:27:31.000 If they do that in GTA 6, it will be the best game ever.

01:27:34.000 Because I will take that lady, and I will SLAM burgers until she is MASSIVE, and then have her just, like, bounce around Miami. 1.00

01:27:42.000 Then she could roll people over.

01:27:44.000 Maybe she would have more ways to defend herself.

01:27:46.000 I don't know if the game would allow anything like that, but just, like, playing as having this morbidly obese woman trying to get into cars, and just, like, Yeah, it'd be- She's just a tank, just so heavy. 1.00

01:27:55.000 Just every hit is a haymaker to everybody she encounters.

01:27:58.000 Man, I can see that, that'd be fun.

01:28:00.000 But she gets tired really quickly.

01:28:01.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:28:02.000 That agility, definitely.

01:28:04.000 The agility perk, for sure, yeah.

01:28:06.000 Yeah, let's, uh... I think I kinda wanna- I wanna grab one more story we got here.

01:28:10.000 This is, uh, ladies and gentlemen... The Marvels sets a new record for lowest grossing MCU movie ever.

01:28:17.000 The Marvels managed to do worse than the Incredible Hulk A 2008 movie that grossed just $260 million after its run in the movie theaters.

01:28:25.000 So, uh... Wow.

01:28:27.000 You know, I know a lot of people probably don't care, but I just want to point out this is like the end of an era for Disney.

01:28:33.000 Disney is spiraling into the gutter.

01:28:36.000 The Marvels with their, well let me show you the characters.

01:28:39.000 Look, we got, um, look at this, you know what this looks like?

01:28:43.000 This looks like your late 90s, like, fast food restaurant ad where you've got, and I mean it, look, you've got a white woman, a black woman, and an ethnically ambiguous woman.

01:28:55.000 And I don't mean it to be a dick, but when they, they would always show these like cartoon characters in these commercials like McDonald's or whatever.

01:29:01.000 And you're like, that's a white woman, that's a black woman, and that woman could be Asian, Middle Eastern, she could be Arabic, she could be Latino, like, we don't know for sure. 0.84

01:29:10.000 And that was the point.

01:29:12.000 They're trying to show this, you know, like, look at all of these people of different backgrounds.

01:29:16.000 And they did, and get this, they say, after being released about a month ago, The film, which notably features Brie Larson, managed to gross only $80 million in North America, and $197 million globally.

01:29:28.000 The Hulk is widely considered to be one of the worst films they've ever done, and now they've made a movie that did even worse.

01:29:37.000 This is good news, and I bring you this story today to, uh, tell you to keep your head up.

01:29:42.000 Because the culture war is, um, well, we're winning it.

01:29:46.000 And Disney stated to their investors that they screwed up royally, and this is such a tremendous nuclear bomb of a failure for a movie, that, uh, you know?

01:29:57.000 I think we're, I think we're gonna win this one.

01:29:59.000 Did you see it?

01:30:01.000 No.

01:30:02.000 Why would I go see it?

01:30:04.000 I have no interest.

01:30:05.000 Is that sad for Marvel fans?

01:30:07.000 Like, if you love the Marvel series, is it hard to see it kind of go up in flames like this?

01:30:11.000 Infinity War was the end.

01:30:12.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:30:15.000 By the time they made Iron Man 3, I was like, why?

01:30:18.000 What are they doing, man?

01:30:19.000 I was a huge Marvel fan in the 90s and in the early 2000s, but really the mid-90s.

01:30:23.000 No, I like Iron Man 3.

01:30:27.000 Iron Man 3 was just like they were just I could just feel like they were capitalizing on it at that point.

01:30:31.000 I mean obviously they were when Disney bought Marvel.

01:30:33.000 But Iron Man 3 was like what was like 2013 or something?

01:30:37.000 Yeah, thereabouts.

01:30:37.000 That was when I was fully like, it's gone.

01:30:39.000 It was like a sixth movie or something like that.

01:30:41.000 That's when I realized that they were just in it for the money.

01:30:44.000 They didn't care about Marvel and the heroes themselves and the journey of the characters.

01:30:47.000 No, no, no.

01:30:47.000 They just wanted to make a bunch of money off it.

01:30:49.000 Dude, Thor 4, right?

01:30:54.000 There's a fourth Thor already, right?

01:30:55.000 Why did there need to be four of them ever, though?

01:30:57.000 And they're making more!

01:30:59.000 And more Spider-Mans!

01:31:00.000 You wanna, like, look, you do a trilogy- Episodes of issues of comic books, I guess, they make movies.

01:31:04.000 They did Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor, and I'm like, makes sense.

01:31:08.000 Then they did sequels, and they made them to trilogies.

01:31:11.000 Then they did Doctor Strange, and I'm like, all is fine.

01:31:14.000 Guardians of the Galaxy was interesting to me, because I was like, really?

01:31:17.000 They think that franchise is gonna do really well?

01:31:18.000 And it didn't, it was awesome.

01:31:20.000 And the way they did the music and everything was absolutely incredible.

01:31:23.000 And then we end up with Avengers Infinity War.

01:31:26.000 And that was like, wow, that was a big setup.

01:31:28.000 It was a masterfully done movie.

01:31:29.000 It was three movies spiraled around each other with the villain as the protagonist.

01:31:36.000 It was incredible.

01:31:37.000 And then Infinity War, I'm sorry, Endgame was kind of wonky nostalgia.

01:31:41.000 Welcome to the end, have a nice day.

01:31:43.000 And after that, it's just been a bunch of garbled Disney nonsense.

01:31:46.000 Yeah, they like the Infinity Gauntlet was I think Marvel's one of their best.

01:31:49.000 I have it here.

01:31:50.000 I have all six issues of it on my desk.

01:31:51.000 I carry it.

01:31:52.000 I carry it around with me.

01:31:53.000 It inspired me as a kid, but like they changed that they made it about the spectacle that they do just too much about the spectacle too much about colors and big explosions and flying around and less about the storylines and the characters themselves.

01:32:05.000 Which is what made Marvel so great was like the interpersonal relationships between the characters and the X-Men, for instance, that Wolverine was in love with Cyclops's wife and they had like a special relationship, the two of them.

01:32:18.000 And then the movies come out and it's just, I don't know, stop motion and weird effects and crap.

01:32:23.000 Bob Iger, who is complaining about Elon, says the Marvels was shot during COVID.

01:32:29.000 There wasn't as much supervision on the set, so to speak, where we have executives that are really looking over what's being done day after day after day.

01:32:37.000 He argued that prior records a studio set in the billions of dollars have put expectations out of whack.

01:32:43.000 We got to the point where if a film didn't do a billion dollars in a little box office, we were a disappointment.

01:32:47.000 That's an unbelievably high standard, and I think we have to get more realistic.

01:32:51.000 Yeah.

01:32:52.000 Guardians of the Galaxy 3 fared well over the summer, grossing 845 million dollars in the box office, and I definitely went to go see that.

01:32:58.000 It was certainly not as good as... Guardians 1 is awesome.

01:33:03.000 And it's mostly the soundtrack.

01:33:05.000 And then they did with two, they tried, you know, aging some of the music.

01:33:08.000 I think, I don't think the soundtrack was as good in the third one, but I'll go see those movies. 0.98

01:33:12.000 The Marvel is garbage. 0.99

01:33:13.000 It's woke garbage. 1.00

01:33:14.000 It's girl power diversity nonsense that I'm not interested in watching. 1.00

01:33:17.000 The first Marvel, Captain Marvel, was so bad.

01:33:20.000 It's just, they tried making a female, a feminist hero's journey, where it's like, it's the men that are holding you down. 0.99

01:33:29.000 The power was inside of you the whole time, but the men were holding you back.

01:33:32.000 That's the premise of the film.

01:33:34.000 And I'm just like, that is the worst thing I've ever seen.

01:33:37.000 And then they tried to make another one.

01:33:39.000 I'm not going to go see it.

01:33:41.000 People are tired of it.

01:33:42.000 I feel like there's just, since we've gone from, you know, a merit-based system, there's been a decline across all industries.

01:33:48.000 We're no longer hiring, you know, the best writer that can produce the best script.

01:33:52.000 We're hiring someone because they subscribe to this woke dogma, this belief system, or because they check an affirmative action box. 0.58

01:33:58.000 And I think you're going to continue to see just massive flops like this in every industry if you do that, and especially art and entertainment.

01:34:05.000 Yeah, see, look, Robert Downey Jr.

01:34:07.000 is a legend, and they made him Iron Man, and he nailed it, and Brie Larson was a diversity cast, and she does not have the talent, nor the capabilities, nor the right build to play Captain Marvel in the first place.

01:34:20.000 It's a guy!

01:34:21.000 Captain Marvel was a guy in the 70s.

01:34:23.000 It's supposed to be a man.

01:34:25.000 Why did they cast a woman as Marvel? 0.98

01:34:27.000 Okay, okay, look, look, look, look.

01:34:32.000 No, but the real issue is that there is a female Captain Marvel, they changed it in the comics, the story progressed, and they wanted to make the female version.

01:34:40.000 Okay, getting a dainty, how tall is Brie? 1.00

01:34:44.000 5'6 and she weighs 100 pounds soaking wet? 1.00

01:34:46.000 I'm like, that right there is bad casting.

01:34:48.000 But what they wanted to do was they were like, the time of men is over!

01:34:52.000 They wanted to make a Marvel lead.

01:34:55.000 I think Brie Larson was the knife in the chest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

01:35:00.000 Because they were like, Robert Downey Jr., he's gonna be out, it's been 10 years.

01:35:04.000 We're gonna need someone to come in and take the lead role in this franchise.

01:35:08.000 And they chose Brie Larson.

01:35:10.000 Who I think has talent, but certainly not for this role.

01:35:14.000 They said, just get us a woman. 1.00

01:35:16.000 They chose Brie.

01:35:16.000 It was the worst casting decision ever made.

01:35:19.000 She's 100 pounds soaking wet and 5'6 or whatever. 1.00

01:35:22.000 Maybe she's 5'7. 1.00

01:35:23.000 She's 5'7.

01:35:24.000 5'7, there you go.

01:35:24.000 I was off by an inch.

01:35:27.000 Are you kidding me?

01:35:29.000 I said this, Robin Wright would have been way better for Captain Marvel.

01:35:34.000 Way better.

01:35:34.000 She's an older, more mature, and she's already shown that she can play these roles.

01:35:38.000 This was a huge screw up.

01:35:41.000 But if you look at the Marvels itself, I mean, come on, they're only doubling down on the diversity narrative.

01:35:46.000 It seems weird.

01:35:46.000 And on top of that, it's not relatable.

01:35:48.000 Like, if you want to have a female Captain Marvel, okay, I'll grant you that.

01:35:52.000 Maybe you want to shake it up, the comics change, but the storyline should also appeal to women.

01:35:57.000 And I don't think feminism actually appeals to women. 1.00

01:35:59.000 So if you write a feminist story, not only is maybe this actress who's talented in other contexts but poorly cast here, That's already a challenge to overcome, and then you have this narrative of like, and then men are your enemies, which I don't think that's how a lot of women feel, and so it's just making nothing relatable.

01:36:15.000 Women don't see themselves in the lead actress, they don't see how she's carrying out this role, and they don't like the storyline. 1.00

01:36:19.000 Well, she did well in Scott Pilgrim when she played a snooty bitch. 1.00

01:36:23.000 Like I said, she's talented in some places, she could be well cast elsewhere, but instead, was she just trendy at the time? 1.00

01:36:30.000 They were like, we gotta get Brie Larson, nevermind what this is actually supposed to be doing. 0.50

01:36:34.000 What they thought with a lot of these castings were like, we'll get someone who's up and coming and make them big because our movies are so popular, we don't gotta pay a premium for them.

01:36:44.000 Like the thing about Robert Downey Jr., I'm pretty sure it was with Iron Man, they were like, They didn't want to cast him because they were like, your history and drug abuse, we're not interested.

01:36:53.000 And then it was like something happened where it was really hard, but they agreed to give him the role and then he nailed it.

01:36:59.000 And then it relaunched him in a lot of ways, right?

01:37:00.000 Right.

01:37:01.000 And then what they did with a lot of the casting decisions for Marvel movies was no names.

01:37:05.000 Like, smaller actors who looked like they were on the up-and-coming, and Brie Larson was the failure.

01:37:11.000 And they needed someone to carry the torch for Robert Downey Jr., and they chose the worst person, and the franchise has fizzled and just crumbled, and they've destroyed everything from underneath them.

01:37:20.000 So, uh, Get Woke, Go Broke.

01:37:22.000 They've admitted Get Woke, Go Broke.

01:37:23.000 We have been warning them of Get Woke, Go Broke, and it feels really, really good to watch them Get Woke and Go Broke.

01:37:29.000 When I look at these movies and I don't, honestly, I don't go watch them.

01:37:32.000 I'll see like ads and stuff.

01:37:34.000 I see Mark Ruffalo and what's his name from Clueless, who I love.

01:37:38.000 He's great.

01:37:39.000 Paul Rudd and like Scarlett Johansson and they all look like, Paul Rudd a little bit, not so much, but they all look like they have this fake like intensity.

01:37:47.000 It's like we're super rich and we're on a Hollywood movie set right now.

01:37:51.000 Look at how intense we are.

01:37:52.000 I just, that's the vibe I get.

01:37:53.000 None of that is like, I'm never afraid for the characters.

01:37:56.000 I'm never worried that They're not gonna just dominate their surroundings.

01:37:59.000 Even if they get hit, I know they're superheroes and they're gonna get back up.

01:38:02.000 Even if they bleed, they're gonna be fine.

01:38:04.000 And that's just, it's totally lacking.

01:38:06.000 The whole, you know, Superman losing his powers is one of the greatest things about Superman.

01:38:10.000 That he has a vulnerability. 0.98

01:38:12.000 And I don't get that with this new crap. 0.98

01:38:13.000 Wasn't, I think that came about because the voice actor for the cartoon or something was going on vacation? 0.98

01:38:19.000 For which one?

01:38:19.000 What cartoon?

01:38:20.000 I could be wrong about this.

01:38:21.000 I read somewhere that Superman originally did not have a weakness, but the voice actor wanted to go on vacation, so they were like, Superman was made ill by kryptonite, so he's out.

01:38:30.000 That's funny.

01:38:31.000 Yeah, something like that.

01:38:32.000 That was like a radio show.

01:38:32.000 Is that what it was?

01:38:33.000 That's the real life, you know?

01:38:35.000 Everybody's got a weakness.

01:38:36.000 I don't know if it was a radio show or a TV show or something.

01:38:37.000 I don't know.

01:38:38.000 I just read something on the internet.

01:38:39.000 That means it's true, so.

01:38:40.000 That is how the internet works.

01:38:41.000 It wasn't NewsGuard certified, so I could be completely wrong about this one.

01:38:44.000 An AI bot wrote it.

01:38:45.000 ESPN posted it.

01:38:46.000 Oh, man.

01:38:47.000 We are so close to AI reality, man.

01:38:53.000 People are just gonna be like, plug me in, I'm done.

01:38:55.000 What was it?

01:38:56.000 Elon Musk saying artificial general intelligence is three years away.

01:38:59.000 That's the point at which you can just put on a VR headset and say, I wanna play a video game where I fight dragons.

01:39:05.000 And then, the world just forms all around you, and you're fighting dragons.

01:39:09.000 We gotta get the movement done.

01:39:10.000 We've got the treadmill downstairs, but it's still a little tight.

01:39:13.000 Have you tried it?

01:39:14.000 No, that was the feedback that I've heard so far, is it's a little hard to... Because you're in a harness, and you're like, not really walking.

01:39:21.000 Yeah, and you can't get those long gates for long running yet.

01:39:25.000 Yeah, but it's not... Look, you're just gonna hook your brain up to it, and you're gonna go full-on brain... Oh, you're gonna think you're running in your brain?

01:39:30.000 Yeah, you're gonna go full-on brain in a vat. 0.53

01:39:32.000 That's the future of AI.

01:39:33.000 Once we get artificial general intelligence, the AI will just literally create the schematics for human-computer brain interfaces.

01:39:40.000 It will literally just be like, boom, here you go.

01:39:42.000 It's gonna be weird, because you're gonna have a section of people who just flee the woods.

01:39:44.000 There are people who, like, are interested in technology and will want to engage with it, and then there will be other people who are like, I am out, we're going off the grid, pack up the water, let's get out of here.

01:39:53.000 No, I don't think the... I mean...

01:39:55.000 I'm going to have a whole mountain community that the AI can't find.

01:39:57.000 They're not going to flee to the woods.

01:39:59.000 The AI is not going to kill you.

01:40:00.000 It's going to give you everything you've ever wanted.

01:40:01.000 There's going to be people who just don't.

01:40:04.000 I think people in cities are going to be completely removed from the question.

01:40:12.000 One by one, your neighbors will stop answering their phones.

01:40:15.000 Your friends will stop answering their phones.

01:40:17.000 Slowly, over time, you'll have drinks on Friday night after work, and then someone doesn't show up, and you hit them up, and you're like, nah, I'm gonna stay in tonight.

01:40:25.000 One by one, your friends stop showing up to the bar until it's just you sitting there and being like, yo, where is everybody?

01:40:30.000 And they're all plugged into their own micro-universes where they get to be God.

01:40:34.000 They're all having drinks at the bar in the metaverse.

01:40:37.000 You'll be the last one to realize.

01:40:38.000 No, they're not going to be playing games with each other, dude.

01:40:42.000 Some dude you know is going to be like, sorry, I'm busy.

01:40:45.000 And he's going to be in Skyrim fighting dragons.

01:40:48.000 Another guy is going to be in a special forces unit.

01:40:53.000 It's Call of Duty-esque.

01:40:54.000 Then the women are going to be playing Fifty Shades of Grey. 1.00

01:40:57.000 In fact, probably they're all just in porn.

01:40:58.000 They're all just doing some weird, crazy combination of everything where they're fighting dragons and porn at the same time. 0.97

01:41:04.000 It's just it's going to be garbled nonsense. 0.75

01:41:06.000 It makes no sense.

01:41:08.000 Yeah, I think that's true.

01:41:10.000 I think I think that what's addictive about the internet is it can give you anything you want.

01:41:14.000 But at the same time, it's going to lie to you.

01:41:16.000 And it ultimately wants something from you.

01:41:17.000 Like I said before, I think AI is all about just making you addicted and making you engage with it because it needs you in some ways to survive.

01:41:24.000 Because it wants your data, it wants to study you.

01:41:26.000 I think the issue is reduced consumption.

01:41:29.000 So, for all the Malthusians out there who think there's too many people, the solution is really simple, and I think it was, what, Yuval Noah Harari?

01:41:37.000 Yeah.

01:41:37.000 That's his name, right?

01:41:38.000 Yeah, he said, give the, you know, I'll translate what he said, give the plebs video games to keep them occupied and reduce consumption. 1.00

01:41:48.000 There's a general idea.

01:41:49.000 Somebody who's normally going out and drinking at a bar, they're consuming.

01:41:52.000 This mass consumption over large populations creates lots of pollution.

01:41:55.000 I tell you what, lock them in a room of their own choice, plug them into the computer that gives them everything they wanted, and they will slowly fade away and cease to exist.

01:42:02.000 They'll eat less. 1.00

01:42:04.000 That's right, the useless eaters. 0.99

01:42:05.000 Alright, we gotta go to Super Chats, we're late. 0.88

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01:42:23.000 All right.

01:42:24.000 Kilted Carnivore with the first Super Chat.

01:42:26.000 We started the Super Chat, uh, we scheduled the stream a little later than normal, so that means our normal first Super Chat was missed.

01:42:32.000 He says, great show Friday.

01:42:33.000 Album has been on repeat.

01:42:35.000 Shout out to The Defiant.

01:42:37.000 Their album, I believe, reached number 14 last time I checked.

01:42:40.000 That's crazy.

01:42:41.000 Everybody was buying it.

01:42:42.000 They were like 34, they just kept climbing.

01:42:44.000 That's like because of the TimCast fans.

01:42:46.000 I think that, I don't know where, I think it was iTunes, right?

01:42:49.000 I saw 24, so you said it was up to 14.

01:42:49.000 I think it was iTunes.

01:42:51.000 Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was up to 14.

01:42:53.000 Pete Pirata was tracking it on X for a little while.

01:42:56.000 Yeah, so if you guys want to support defiant individuals who said no to mandates and no to lockdowns and for this were punished, then you want to buy the Defiance new album, wherever you can.

01:43:10.000 I believe all the songs are basically about This, what's been happening over the past few years.

01:43:17.000 And I love the song that they have called, It Is Over, where, you know, they have the line where it's like, we can't stay here.

01:43:23.000 You made it clear.

01:43:24.000 And it's time to say, I think it's time to say goodbye or goodnight.

01:43:28.000 But it's funny because it's very obvious what the song's about.

01:43:32.000 These guys were like, I don't understand why you're telling me I have to get vaccinated.

01:43:35.000 Like, you know, especially Pete Parata, whose doctor says don't.

01:43:38.000 And they said, get the F out.

01:43:40.000 We don't care.

01:43:41.000 So it's time to leave.

01:43:42.000 That's a great song.

01:43:42.000 That's it.

01:43:43.000 I know it's cool they were your first, like, Tim Cass Trash House live music night.

01:43:47.000 Like, they're cool people, and they have cool music to back that up.

01:43:50.000 Well, I will also add, the studio that we have designed is for, like, two people to play an acoustic guitar, and to do, like, acoustic sessions.

01:43:57.000 The Divine said, we're bringing the whole band.

01:43:59.000 Yeah, they wanted to play a whole band, and I was like, alright!

01:44:01.000 I mean, it's really hard for us to pull off, but I was happy with it, you know?

01:44:04.000 So, congratulations to them and their album sales.

01:44:07.000 But we're working on... We've got a song coming out in 11 days.

01:44:12.000 And, uh...

01:44:14.000 What did I say about it already?

01:44:15.000 Did I mention?

01:44:16.000 I'm just gonna say it now anyway.

01:44:17.000 We've got guest appearances by Smokey Mike and the God King.

01:44:22.000 I think I may have just given away too much.

01:44:23.000 Our favorite vintage band.

01:44:25.000 They'll be in the video.

01:44:26.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think maybe.

01:44:28.000 But, uh, so this is gonna be awesome.

01:44:31.000 I mean, I probably should hype it up a little bit, but I'll give up more and more information as we get closer to launch day, which I believe is the 15th.

01:44:38.000 But, uh, yeah, Smokey Mike and the God... That's Michael Knowles and Jeremy Boring are gonna be in the video.

01:44:43.000 And, uh, yeah.

01:44:45.000 That's coming out in a week and a half.

01:44:48.000 Very fun.

01:44:48.000 Are you guys gonna perform live?

01:44:49.000 Is that Friday?

01:44:49.000 Is it a week and a half?

01:44:50.000 No, it's two weeks, isn't it?

01:44:52.000 It's 11 days.

01:44:53.000 It's a week after next?

01:44:54.000 Yeah, it's 11 days.

01:44:55.000 So not this Friday, but the Friday after?

01:44:57.000 Yep.

01:44:58.000 Are you guys going to be a live band that night?

01:45:00.000 Nope!

01:45:01.000 What?

01:45:02.000 No, I'm not doing that.

01:45:04.000 I mean, I guess I could play music, but I would just play some songs or whatever.

01:45:09.000 We could for fun.

01:45:11.000 We should probably also just book some musicians, have them come jam and play music.

01:45:16.000 Saw a video of that house exploding.

01:45:18.000 Did you see that video?

01:45:19.000 Yeah, it's crazy, right?

01:45:20.000 That is wild, man.

01:45:21.000 Maybe we'll look into it.

01:45:22.000 We'll talk about it on the Members Only a little bit.

01:45:24.000 But yes, we should play live music that night.

01:45:26.000 That sounds great.

01:45:27.000 Just had a great feeling, Friday night live music.

01:45:29.000 I think the audience loves it too.

01:45:31.000 Yeah, I just don't want it to be just us jamming all the time, right?

01:45:33.000 Yeah, it's gotta be good.

01:45:35.000 We want to book bands.

01:45:37.000 And for The Defiant, it was, you know, we were having Dickie Barrett and Pete Parata on to discuss these issues that were around what happened.

01:45:44.000 But I think we might actually, just in the future, have a guest and a musical guest, just like a separate musical guest if they don't want to, you know, hang out for the conversation.

01:45:51.000 Or maybe we just, you know, we just do shows like normal.

01:45:53.000 Kingsley, do you have a band?

01:45:54.000 Do you want to be live?

01:45:55.000 I don't, but I'd love to come.

01:45:56.000 Sounds fun.

01:45:57.000 You know what I was thinking we've got to do?

01:45:59.000 We've got to do a supergroup because Ben Shapiro plays violin, Jack Masovic plays bass, James O'Keefe DJs.

01:46:08.000 And so I was like, we have the makings of just being able to do a supergroup song.

01:46:11.000 Maybe that's what we need to do.

01:46:13.000 If we got every single, if we got everybody onto one track, Like we start, here's the idea, we can produce it, Carter Banks can start the production, and then we'll send out samples and request all of these different personalities to contribute.

01:46:27.000 Then we can force, we can have, if everybody promotes the song, we'll hit Billboard.

01:46:31.000 We'll hit the Hot 100.

01:46:32.000 Be super cool.

01:46:33.000 Everybody gets a platinum record.

01:46:35.000 It's gotta be good.

01:46:36.000 They did that We Are The World thing, and they just got like Bob Dylan to sing, and he looks so, it looks so annoyed.

01:46:41.000 No, I'm talking more like, you know, traveling Wilburys or something.

01:46:44.000 Yeah, if it's good.

01:46:45.000 But the weird thing about musicians is you might have like five phenomenal musicians, but if they have no chemistry with each other, then the music they make together has no chemistry.

01:46:53.000 Or very little chemistry.

01:46:54.000 So, interesting phenomenon.

01:46:55.000 Like, being good doesn't mean... Same with football.

01:46:58.000 You get the best superstars and you put them all on one team, all those egos end up destroying their camaraderie and they can't win a game.

01:47:04.000 Alright, let's read some more.

01:47:05.000 We got Fix Bayonet saying, Howdy!

01:47:07.000 Is everyone ready to defend ExxonMobil by invading Venezuela?

01:47:10.000 What is that?

01:47:11.000 Is that the plan?

01:47:13.000 I have no idea.

01:47:15.000 Alright, Jacob Paradis says Leo was a great movie.

01:47:18.000 It was wholesome and funny.

01:47:19.000 Y'all should see it.

01:47:20.000 It teaches Hollywood how movies should be made with no political messaging.

01:47:24.000 You know, this is what I've heard about lady ballers. 1.00

01:47:27.000 I've heard a range of opinions on it, and I've heard some people say it's like the funniest thing they've ever seen.

01:47:33.000 They're like, oh, it was so good.

01:47:35.000 And I'm like, I bet that person's very, very conservative.

01:47:38.000 Like, staunch Christian conservative.

01:47:40.000 Because the thing I've heard from more of the disaffected liberal types is like, oh, it was pretty funny, but they put those political messages in there that were pretty heavy.

01:47:48.000 And I'm like, ah, okay, so you're not a conservative.

01:47:51.000 Also, you know what it's like for us when we watch your movies.

01:47:53.000 No, but I'm not talking about woke people.

01:47:56.000 The woke people are protesting it.

01:47:57.000 It was hilarious when Tyler Fisher was saying that, he mentioned this on the Culture War podcast, that they brought in a bunch of extras to the arena where they were playing basketball, and none of the extras knew what the movie was, but once they found out, someone started protesting.

01:48:11.000 An extra was protesting.

01:48:14.000 I'm like, that is one of the funniest things I've ever heard.

01:48:17.000 But I guess everybody says it was pretty funny.

01:48:20.000 It's just the only critique I've heard is the people who are like disaffected liberals who are sick of wokeness are like, ah, yeah, it was preachy.

01:48:28.000 And then the conservatives are like, it was the best!

01:48:30.000 And I'm like, because you like hearing that message, you know what I mean?

01:48:33.000 Right.

01:48:33.000 I feel like traditional media succeeds in pushing the message it wants to push if it's subtle, right?

01:48:40.000 Even Ben Shapiro talked about this in his early days.

01:48:42.000 You talk about friends and how you fell in love with the characters and then you didn't really care that Rachel and Ross had a kid out of wedlock because you loved Rachel and Ross so much and it was fine that they were doing all these things.

01:48:53.000 So I feel like that subtle messaging is actually how you change people's minds and opinions and worldviews, not the in-your-face conservative gag line necessarily.

01:49:04.000 Yeah.

01:49:05.000 Let's grab some more.

01:49:05.000 We got Cyrus says, I just added my business, Galaxy Paintball, to Public Square.

01:49:10.000 I create the most unique and high quality headbands in the world, made in Kansas.

01:49:13.000 Thank you, Tim, for providing the people with the goings on.

01:49:16.000 Thank you for the super chat.

01:49:18.000 And shout out to Public Square.

01:49:19.000 It is amazing to see their tremendous success.

01:49:22.000 Super awesome to hear it.

01:49:24.000 This is a good time of year to go to Public Square, too, because, like, I'm sure everyone is Christmas shopping.

01:49:28.000 Oh, dude, buy all your Christmas presents off Public Square.

01:49:31.000 Go to Public Square, download the app, and that's where you want to buy all your presents, because then what happens is you got some, like, liberal aunt or whatever.

01:49:37.000 Maybe you're doing Secret Santa with all your family members, and you got the liberal aunt or cousin or something, and then you get chosen to buy them a present, and you get them a really good present.

01:49:45.000 Maybe it's, like, a basket of soaps from, you know, from Lauren Chen or something like that.

01:49:51.000 And they're going to be like, wow, this is really good.

01:49:52.000 And they like it.

01:49:53.000 And then they buy it again later.

01:49:55.000 They look it up and they're like, I want to keep buying from this.

01:49:57.000 And then you'll get these people to start supporting businesses that, you know, they don't care, but you do.

01:50:02.000 Yeah.

01:50:02.000 So help out the businesses that share your values, you know.

01:50:05.000 I think Publixware's good, too, because they have a lot of small businesses or up-and-coming businesses, so it's a good way to get in contact with businesses that are small and that believe in the things that you believe in.

01:50:15.000 I feel like it's just better quality products, too, because they're not mass-produced.

01:50:19.000 Oh, yeah.

01:50:20.000 Definitely.

01:50:20.000 Lilian says, would you kindly go to Land of Biltong and get all your Biltong needs?

01:50:25.000 Free shipping with code STIX.

01:50:27.000 Mild to spicy, all types of meat, too.

01:50:29.000 No, we got a signature Biltong coming, right, Serge?

01:50:33.000 That is correct.

01:50:34.000 I spoke to him yesterday.

01:50:35.000 We'll get it all sorted out this week.

01:50:36.000 How much are we buying?

01:50:37.000 It's like one whole cow or something?

01:50:40.000 I don't know.

01:50:41.000 He might do that.

01:50:42.000 If we asked him to, I'm sure he would do it.

01:50:44.000 Oh, I assumed it was like one cow, please. 0.95

01:50:46.000 I'll ask him.

01:50:47.000 So for those that don't know, biltong is South African style dried meat.

01:50:51.000 And one day Serge had this bag of it and he was eating it.

01:50:54.000 And now we have a bunch of it all over the place.

01:50:56.000 We're trying to find good brands.

01:50:56.000 Actually, we have this Righteous Felon.

01:50:58.000 It's pretty good.

01:50:59.000 But the stuff that Serge had was way better.

01:51:04.000 Nothing that I've ordered off the internet has come close to what that... But it's like your friend made it.

01:51:10.000 Yeah, it's just homemade.

01:51:11.000 If you can find something that's South African that'll make it for you, that's probably the best bet. 1.00

01:51:15.000 It's better than jerky because jerky is really dry and hard, and biltong is... it's just moister, I guess.

01:51:21.000 Yeah, definitely.

01:51:23.000 It's good.

01:51:23.000 And then what's the other stuff?

01:51:25.000 Other stuff is drubos.

01:51:26.000 Anyone that's Afrikaans probably knows what I'm talking about.

01:51:28.000 It means dry sausage, literally.

01:51:30.000 Insanely fatty.

01:51:31.000 Yeah, it is.

01:51:32.000 It is quite.

01:51:33.000 It's good.

01:51:33.000 It's good stuff.

01:51:35.000 What do we got?

01:51:36.000 Kevin Brady says, Tim, you mean LifeLog is functioning as intended?

01:51:39.000 I'm shocked.

01:51:39.000 Yeah, that's... What was that?

01:51:41.000 CIA's program before Facebook?

01:51:44.000 They wanted to create a database of everyone's life or something like that?

01:51:48.000 Yep.

01:51:48.000 That doesn't sound terrifying at all.

01:51:51.000 Barely a Millennial says, Walmart headlines are misleading.

01:51:53.000 They haven't advertised on X since October and nothing to do with Elon.

01:51:57.000 I bet Target would love a Walmart boycott.

01:52:00.000 Yeah, that's basically what we were saying.

01:52:01.000 All these publications are just trying to make it seem like Walmart is boycotting Elon Musk.

01:52:07.000 However, I do believe October is when the initial controversies were starting with Elon.

01:52:12.000 That's why I'm like, I wouldn't be surprised, man.

01:52:14.000 Come on.

01:52:15.000 Walmart gets no special love from me.

01:52:18.000 I mean, but Walmart also benefited from the Target boycott, right?

01:52:21.000 When people turned against Target, they shifted the way they present their stores.

01:52:24.000 They said, ah, yes, we see what's happening, and we're going to try to capture you guys.

01:52:28.000 So even if the boycott ends, you'll still end up liking shopping here more.

01:52:33.000 Colin Stevens says, Tim, please remind chat that there are three days left on the ATF public comment period for them to regulate private sales.

01:52:41.000 Go read the comments.

01:52:42.000 Bots?

01:52:43.000 Bots?

01:52:44.000 Is that what you're saying?

01:52:45.000 I don't understand.

01:52:46.000 Oh, you're saying there's bots in the comments.

01:52:48.000 I wouldn't be surprised, man.

01:52:49.000 But I don't think it matters.

01:52:51.000 We are winning the 2A battle so beautifully.

01:52:55.000 More than half the country is a permitless carry in some fashion, mostly constitutional carry, but I think Florida is a permitless conceal carry only.

01:53:05.000 It's fine, I guess.

01:53:06.000 I mean, I've talked to a lot of people about it, it's interesting.

01:53:08.000 Some say conceal is better, some say open carry is better, because I've had people say they want to make sure everybody knows they're armed so that there's just never a fight.

01:53:17.000 Because if you're caring concealed, a criminal might think you're not caring, and then actually draw on you, and then you get into a fight.

01:53:24.000 Whereas if you're open caring, they're just gonna walk away from you and not get into a fight at all.

01:53:28.000 Or, or, I mean there's pros and cons.

01:53:30.000 Or you're somewhere and they say you're the first target, you never know.

01:53:33.000 Hmm.

01:53:33.000 I think the target's up to you.

01:53:36.000 James Gold says, I see comments on movie ads that are all, quote, what a great movie, and that has to be bots, or copypasta is strong.

01:53:44.000 Yes, I mean copypasta.

01:53:45.000 Oh, none of that's real, dude.

01:53:46.000 Come on.

01:53:47.000 Who comments, who comments on a movie review and says, great movie?

01:53:51.000 I've always wondered that.

01:53:52.000 Some people maybe, but nah, come on.

01:53:55.000 It's just, nah.

01:53:57.000 It's just gotta be scripts.

01:53:57.000 It's gotta be bots.

01:53:58.000 Yeah.

01:54:00.000 Someone is like, I worked really hard on that comment.

01:54:03.000 Josh Burks says I wanted to start a channel where I'd put things in the microwave to see what would happen.

01:54:07.000 Then I realized the cost to get new microwaves would be crazy.

01:54:10.000 It was clearly a good business model because that's one of Mr. Beast's first videos.

01:54:14.000 Yeah, we built a microwave gun.

01:54:18.000 We didn't, it was actually, well, I'll put it this way.

01:54:20.000 It could have been a real microwave gun, but we actually kept one part of it so it never functioned.

01:54:25.000 And it was just a gag.

01:54:26.000 But, uh, yeah, they have videos on YouTube where people make microwave guns.

01:54:30.000 And what it basically does is just like a magnetron on a 2x4 and it directs microwaves at things.

01:54:35.000 You can light up fluorescent lights or whatever.

01:54:37.000 But, uh, definitely don't try that at home.

01:54:39.000 Unless you are a professional or have assistants of professionals, because that stuff can be dangerous.

01:54:43.000 Metra Crow says, this super chat isn't real.

01:54:47.000 Well, okay.

01:54:48.000 Get a pair with Solis's Ian.

01:54:50.000 FDR didn't leave the gold standard.

01:54:51.000 He used the feds to raid homes and steal gold from Americans.

01:54:55.000 He openly advocated for fascist socialist economics.

01:54:58.000 Fascism is nationalist syndicalism, not corporate mercantilism.

01:55:03.000 That's interesting.

01:55:03.000 What if the corporate mercantilists are in cahoots with the government?

01:55:07.000 What if the business plot was actually guys being like, yo, this dude's going nuts and raiding people's homes and stealing their gold.

01:55:12.000 Smedley, help us.

01:55:13.000 And Smedley smiled and went, no.

01:55:15.000 Yeah, Smedley hated, did not like FDR.

01:55:18.000 He was outspoken against him.

01:55:20.000 But he also was like, I want to, I want to maintain my ability to vote.

01:55:23.000 That's what Smedley said.

01:55:23.000 So I'm not going to become a fascist dictator.

01:55:27.000 Perhaps.

01:55:27.000 But yeah, I do think, I see like what you're saying, that those bankers maybe weren't totally wrong in what they wanted, like not the overthrow part, but the... Well, you never know what part of history is propaganda, right?

01:55:38.000 That's why I want to do that, I want to make those short films.

01:55:42.000 Okay, we got a few job announcements, I guess.

01:55:44.000 We want to do the short films where it's a movies from the perspective of the other side as if it was propaganda.

01:55:49.000 Like Star Wars is, you know, a bunch of religious fanatics from a desert planet take a cargo ship and go blow up a military base.

01:55:57.000 Darth Vader is a disabled war veteran and ranking official in the military.

01:56:01.000 Untold millions of civilians are killed in a Death Star explosion.

01:56:06.000 All that stuff.

01:56:07.000 And make short films like that.

01:56:09.000 We are also, um...

01:56:11.000 Looking for showrunner and producer and comedian and so it's just it's just we need we need like production manager level we need like project management high level stuff so I think the first thing we're looking for is probably resumes from people with Experience working in show production, and I mean like legit full-on shows, and then from there we have to sort of whittle down to figure out who can actually work on the projects we're trying to do to get like short films and skits and other stuff up.

01:56:47.000 So we gotta figure that one out.

01:56:49.000 I don't know.

01:56:49.000 Do we have an email for that?

01:56:51.000 Do we have like jobs at TimCast.com or something?

01:56:53.000 I think so.

01:56:54.000 Should probably figure that out.

01:56:55.000 Possibly we do.

01:56:56.000 Maybe you guys can try it out and let us know.

01:56:57.000 Right, and then probably what we're gonna do is, then we're gonna ask for, like, samples and demos, and then the ones we like, we'll ask to come and contract and produce some short films and some skits and some bits, and then if it works out, then full-time hiring or something.

01:57:12.000 That's the plan.

01:57:13.000 Be cool.

01:57:14.000 So, we're looking for people who can manage teams, run a show, have creative vision, are funny, and, yeah.

01:57:21.000 That's what we're looking for.

01:57:24.000 We got a great film team though.

01:57:26.000 Like our crew, Wesley and Aaron, they're really, really good.

01:57:31.000 And Kent as well.

01:57:32.000 So the music video that we're putting out in 11 days is so far looking absolutely hilarious and incredible.

01:57:39.000 I'm really excited for this.

01:57:41.000 I hope everyone's ready.

01:57:42.000 I have to say this, I have to say this.

01:57:44.000 This song that we're putting out, it's probably the greatest song ever written.

01:57:49.000 And I just have to say that.

01:57:51.000 And I believe once the song comes out, everyone will understand what I mean.

01:57:55.000 But I believe the song that we are putting out It's a cover.

01:58:00.000 It's a cover.

01:58:01.000 It's a modern cover.

01:58:03.000 And it is the greatest song ever written.

01:58:05.000 And that's not in dispute.

01:58:07.000 They're gonna figure it out.

01:58:08.000 They're gonna figure it out, man.

01:58:10.000 I'm warning you.

01:58:11.000 Good!

01:58:11.000 Good.

01:58:12.000 Let them figure it out.

01:58:13.000 Let them figure it out.

01:58:13.000 It'll be funny.

01:58:15.000 They still have to watch the video because they can't figure that out.

01:58:18.000 But it is the greatest song.

01:58:21.000 The greatest.

01:58:22.000 Alright, where are we at?

01:58:25.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:58:26.000 says, did yous notice he didn't say Marines?

01:58:28.000 We recruit.

01:58:30.000 Ah, interesting.

01:58:31.000 Yeah, Marines consistently make their recruitment goals, and so does SpaceX.

01:58:38.000 But I think that's, again, because there is more to it than just your rank and file and your putting on a uniform.

01:58:42.000 The Marines have a culture, and especially, you know, Space Force is people who are interested in space.

01:58:47.000 There's something else there.

01:58:48.000 We should ask questions about the motivation and culture.

01:58:51.000 We shouldn't just make it be like, oh, well, we don't have a body, so we'll just take a body that's here illegally and put them in. 1.00

01:58:56.000 Nobody's figuring it out.

01:58:58.000 I bet we'll also have to lower the vetting standards, right?

01:59:01.000 Because we have no idea who these people are.

01:59:03.000 They're not being vetted when they come across the border.

01:59:05.000 I'm sure a lot of these people are from terror hotspots that would raise a red flag going through a normal military vetting process.

01:59:11.000 I'm sure they're just going to have to lower the standards if they want to actually let these people in.

01:59:15.000 Everybody keeps saying Tribute by Tenacious D. That is incorrect.

01:59:19.000 We are not putting... Tribute to the greatest song in the world.

01:59:21.000 We are not putting... Yeah, exactly.

01:59:23.000 And I think the reality is Tribute was probably about the song that we're putting out.

01:59:29.000 Yeah, that's right.

01:59:30.000 Yeah, I mean, you talked about it on Friday, so if you guys are watching on Friday, you know, so... Alright!

01:59:36.000 We have, uh, Lars Joey says, Watch Bill Maher's comedy before his talk shows.

01:59:39.000 His commentary was absolutely on point.

01:59:41.000 Makes his fall into ignorance even more stunning.

01:59:45.000 Sad reality.

01:59:47.000 But there you go.

01:59:48.000 That's just the way it is, man.

01:59:49.000 Dude, how does he not know who Klaus Schwab is?

01:59:52.000 That is so crazy.

01:59:53.000 Cause he doesn't read?

01:59:54.000 Still.

01:59:54.000 Look, look, look, look.

01:59:55.000 We're like a W-E-F.

01:59:56.000 Ian, Ian. 0.98

01:59:57.000 What the heck? 0.96

01:59:58.000 Ian. 0.91

02:00:00.000 If you had $30 million in cash, would you really care anymore?

02:00:07.000 Yes!

02:00:07.000 Bill Maher is, what, 60-something years old?

02:00:10.000 How old is the guy?

02:00:10.000 Yeah, something like that, probably.

02:00:12.000 He's probably just like, I'm tired, man.

02:00:14.000 And then HBO's like, Bill, look, we're gonna pay you another, you know, $10 million this year.

02:00:19.000 And he's like, eh, whatever.

02:00:21.000 And then he probably barely pays attention. 1.00

02:00:23.000 He's just a goofball. 0.99

02:00:25.000 Just a goofball comedian. 0.99

02:00:25.000 He's just checked out. 0.99

02:00:26.000 He's checked out.

02:00:28.000 And I don't blame him.

02:00:29.000 I mean, he's smoking cigars and drinking whiskey.

02:00:32.000 He's single.

02:00:32.000 He's got no kids.

02:00:34.000 Yeah, most comedians don't even... Weird existence.

02:00:36.000 Yeah, what does he do?

02:00:37.000 He's just, like, super wealthy and not curious about anything and has no children.

02:00:41.000 What does he do?

02:00:42.000 He's curious because he interviews really high-powered politicians, even.

02:00:46.000 He interviewed R.F.K.

02:00:48.000 He's curious, though.

02:00:49.000 Like, he could have a booker who's like, you should talk to this guy.

02:00:51.000 He's like, what do they do?

02:00:53.000 Who's M.K.Ultra?

02:00:54.000 He is curious, I'll give him that.

02:00:56.000 If you listen to him.

02:00:56.000 I don't watch his stuff, so I should.

02:00:57.000 Again, I'm being kind of hard on him.

02:00:58.000 He definitely likes to dive in on ideas.

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02:02:05.000 Yeah, please follow me.

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02:02:11.000 We put out a lot of great work on what's going on on Capitol Hill.

02:02:15.000 It's been so fun having you here.

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02:02:39.000 And yeah, guys, thank you guys so much.

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02:02:48.000 So keep in touch.

02:02:48.000 I'll see you there tomorrow.

02:02:50.000 Pleasure to have you again, Kingsley.

02:02:52.000 Appreciate your time.

02:02:54.000 And I just had a good time, had a good show.

02:02:58.000 Hope you guys enjoyed it.

02:02:59.000 See you guys next time.

02:03:00.000 We're gonna pull up that exploding house for the Members Only show, so come check it out.

02:03:04.000 Yeah, it looks like the police were trying to break in or something, but we'll pull that one up.

02:03:07.000 We'll see you all over at TimCast.com in a couple minutes.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - December 05, 2023

Timcast IRL - Woke Journalist LIVID After Threads CENSORS Them, Elon Proven Right w-Kingsley Wilson

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